Not Just Bikes - Even Small Towns Are Great Here
Isn’t NJB’s general rule something like the more car-friendly a place is, the worse it becomes to live there. Guess pedestrian & bike friendly is always a good thing if there’s people living around there.
The opposite is also true: the bigger a city is, the more transit friendly/pedestrian/bike friendly it should be, hor it will be congested by cars (see Palermo, Italy as an example)
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
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.
