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Be American
Living paycheck to paycheck
Need job
Good worker
Work overtime when needed
Trying to pay off car
Smug biker does a driveby near open car window
Rethink my life
Realize U.S. infrastructure often requires vehicles
In middle of daily 40min commute, one way
Realize the same distance on bike would be two hours
Depresso
This is why we need good public transit on top of good biking infrastructure. The two working together let's you get anywhere a car can go while not taking a lot longer.
You're not wrong, but that's not going to work over the entire country. There's just too much space to cover; the country would go bankrupt trying to provide mass transit everywhere that it's needed. So while this could be, if you could convince people to actually do it, a solution in urban areas, it's never going to work out in the thousands of miles of country and they have the exact same problems. They just have less traffic and more empty space to cross.
I just spent a week in Texas in places that had plenty of people living and presumably working close together. The infrastructure is a hellscape of concrete and asphalt and monstrous pickup trucks. It has nothing to do with being a big country and everything to do with culture and policies.