I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is dense here, comparable to a lot of non-capital European cities. However getting around by bike or public transportation is still impossible. I’d love to bike to work. 95% of my commute route is a single expressway, and even though it has tons of room on both sides, there is no bike lane. Instead I would have to make a multi-hour detour, or risk my life biking right next to cars and trucks driving 60mph. So I drive like everyone else…
Meanwhile in the Netherlands (I don’t live there but was just there on a trip)
In my town I ride my ebike downtown for some errands. It’s about 30 minutes each way. Not bad, so I thought what does it look like in winter when it’s going to be snowy and rainy and yuck outside? Transit would have taken me 40 minutes. Which isn’t bad at all, I would have taken it except that the 40 minute trip was 10 minutes on the bus and 30 minutes walking.
I just rode my bike.
