Honestly, I implore you to try out cycling. It has even less environmental impact than public transit, and can be surprisingly fast and effective even in car-centric removeds (if you don’t skip leg day and can sort of keep up with traffic on the intersections). I was dubious of that at first but now I’ve stopped using my car or public transit to get around town completely and just always hop on my bike.
Not really feasible in my area; You know that old people “why don’t the kids go outside” the outside they built: meme? Yeah it’s that. There isn’t a grocery store that is safe to bike to. Much outside the neighborhood and you encounter 45MPH or higher speed limits and such. For a good long while I did my local travel on a small motorcycle that made 70 miles per gallon. I now work from home so I have no daily commute.
The speed limit doesn’t matter per se. You’re just hanging out on the shoulder (or on the right of the rightmost lane). I regularly cycle along a 110 km/h road (60 mph) (and people speed too), and it’s ok if you ignore the noise (I just put on my ANC headphones as I know I’m safe on the shoulder). The only time you might actually mingle with traffic is when overtaking people in a right turn lane at a stoplight/intersection (but you don’t really have to).
I do agree that american built environment is insane and needs to be torn down and rebuilt completely from scratch, though.
Honestly, I implore you to try out cycling. It has even less environmental impact than public transit, and can be surprisingly fast and effective even in car-centric removeds (if you don’t skip leg day and can sort of keep up with traffic on the intersections). I was dubious of that at first but now I’ve stopped using my car or public transit to get around town completely and just always hop on my bike.
Not really feasible in my area; You know that old people “why don’t the kids go outside” the outside they built: meme? Yeah it’s that. There isn’t a grocery store that is safe to bike to. Much outside the neighborhood and you encounter 45MPH or higher speed limits and such. For a good long while I did my local travel on a small motorcycle that made 70 miles per gallon. I now work from home so I have no daily commute.
The speed limit doesn’t matter per se. You’re just hanging out on the shoulder (or on the right of the rightmost lane). I regularly cycle along a 110 km/h road (60 mph) (and people speed too), and it’s ok if you ignore the noise (I just put on my ANC headphones as I know I’m safe on the shoulder). The only time you might actually mingle with traffic is when overtaking people in a right turn lane at a stoplight/intersection (but you don’t really have to).
I do agree that american built environment is insane and needs to be torn down and rebuilt completely from scratch, though.