Not Just Bikes - Even Small Towns Are Great Here

  • destructdisc@lemmy.worldOP
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    15 hours ago

    No I get that, but there’s this prevailing sentiment that cars are somehow more necessary in rural areas because…they’re not worth serving with transit or something? I don’t know. I think it’s ridiculous. Big cities should obviously have excellent transit and non-car infrastructure but so should small towns and villages

    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
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      11 hours ago

      In my experience, small towns in the US are much more spread out than in Europe. In Europe I lived next to some farmers, and we lived in the village proper, they’d hop on the tractor and head out to their fields.

      Here, farmers mostly live on their farms, and most people have comparatively big properties.

      Still not impossible to have transit, but definitely tougher when the density is lower.