That’s the broken part in a lot of the areas of the US, there is so much parking that you will always find a spot easily and everyone no matter which mode of transit needs to spend time to cross the giant parking lot because that’s what is between the road and the store for example.
I’m lucky I don’t live there and only whitnessed the hostility of the infrastructure towards everyone not in a car when I was visiting on holiday.
It depends where you live. I’m in Europe, and in my case driving to a park (im suburbs, not downtown) with my son was 10min, and cycling was twice as long but with a bike we could go directly to the playground, which was 15 min walk from the park entrance (including taking out the stroller etc) .
So, while google maps showed me 10 vs 20 min, i learned it’s faster to actually just cycle there.
bike: 51 min
Car: 25 min
That’s the broken part in a lot of the areas of the US, there is so much parking that you will always find a spot easily and everyone no matter which mode of transit needs to spend time to cross the giant parking lot because that’s what is between the road and the store for example.
I’m lucky I don’t live there and only whitnessed the hostility of the infrastructure towards everyone not in a car when I was visiting on holiday.
Yeah, but to counter that, slightly, usually there a lot of paid parking. The free parking is usually not as abundant.
Also include horrific externalized costs from cars.
Yep, my comment of 25 minutes completely omits the costs, just talking about time.
The externalized costs of owning a car (and most USians don’t even care for their vehicles as well as they should) are immense.
Not an issue if you avoid downtown.
It depends where you live. I’m in Europe, and in my case driving to a park (im suburbs, not downtown) with my son was 10min, and cycling was twice as long but with a bike we could go directly to the playground, which was 15 min walk from the park entrance (including taking out the stroller etc) . So, while google maps showed me 10 vs 20 min, i learned it’s faster to actually just cycle there.