It takes me a good 15 minutes just to walk out of my large subdivision. And then we're outside of city limits and down a country road (there are corn fields), so it would probably take me another half an hour to 45 minutes just to get to a place where a train is feasible, let alone has a station there. And there's no sidewalks.

There's a city bus now. If we wanted to ride it, and we would, it's a 5 mile walk. And crossing a four-lane highway would be required.

I would love a robust U.S. train network, but it wouldn't help me get groceries from the supermarket to my house and I sure as hell wouldn't want to make that walk in the middle of February around here. Cars are just going to be needed in the U.S. for all the people who don't live in cities.

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A bike could make that hour-long walk into a 15 minute ride.

[–] doingless@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is a wonderful and naive statement. I would die within a week if I tried getting around on a bike. The only bikes I ever see on my commute are set out in memorial of people who died there on the roadside.i have lived in many places where bikes and public transportation were great, but reality is very different in many other places.

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I am very much aware. I only intended to highlight that public transport doesn't have to visit every last corner of the suburbs, given proper infrastructure and traffic regulations.