Nobody is saying that we need to have a bike path going across the whole country. Most people don’t leave their home city on a regular basis, and for those who do, we need to build trains, not more cars.
The cities are probably not build the same. The highways on several levels, the streets sizes, the places to live, work and buy stuff, everything was built around the use of cars since the 60s. And a train network doesn’t build itself.
Exactly. We already bulldozed and rebuilt our cities once in the last 60 years. But that we demolishing density and replacing it with parking lots. Reversing that damage should be easier because a lot of it is just infill, much less demolition needed. There’s no reason we can’t fix it, and every reason we can’t NOT fix it.
The roads didn’t build themselves either. And most major cities were built around rail and walkability until the 50-60s. Before that it was expected that everyone could walk to their basic needs or transit if they lived in the city.
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Nobody is saying that we need to have a bike path going across the whole country. Most people don’t leave their home city on a regular basis, and for those who do, we need to build trains, not more cars.
The cities are probably not build the same. The highways on several levels, the streets sizes, the places to live, work and buy stuff, everything was built around the use of cars since the 60s. And a train network doesn’t build itself.
Not just built for the car: bulldozed for the car.
Exactly. We already bulldozed and rebuilt our cities once in the last 60 years. But that we demolishing density and replacing it with parking lots. Reversing that damage should be easier because a lot of it is just infill, much less demolition needed. There’s no reason we can’t fix it, and every reason we can’t NOT fix it.
The roads didn’t build themselves either. And most major cities were built around rail and walkability until the 50-60s. Before that it was expected that everyone could walk to their basic needs or transit if they lived in the city.
Canada has a bike path across our country: https://tctrail.ca
Note: some sections require canoe.