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Old Posted Jun 3, 2022, 10:53 PM
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I think the most important thing about mode of transportation is the effect it has on the built form, more specifically the amount of parking lots and garages needed, and how the demand for parking affects the streetscape and urban density and walkability, how the amount of parking affects the cost of building skyscrapers. That is the problem that electric cars don't solve.
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Detroit on paper is actually a cyclist's dream. Low traffic, flat, gridded streets for miles and miles and miles. Your biggest encumbrances in reality are probably teenagers and stray dogs.
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Old Posted Jun 4, 2022, 5:49 AM
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Detroit on paper is actually a cyclist's dream. Low traffic, flat, gridded streets for miles and miles and miles. Your biggest encumbrances in reality are probably teenagers and stray dogs.
Like Boston. Detroit motorists have a propensity turn left on you and do not yield to you in anyway. They seem to have a difficulty with turning signals also. Traffic enforcement is non existent mostly. Almost no reliable infrastructure.
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Old Posted Jun 4, 2022, 5:55 AM
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Detroit on paper is actually a cyclist's dream. Low traffic, flat, gridded streets for miles and miles and miles. Your biggest encumbrances in reality are probably teenagers and stray dogs.
It depends. Low traffic, flat gridded streets typically also means speeding cars and drivers that aren't paying attention.
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Old Posted Jun 4, 2022, 3:09 PM
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Detroit on paper is actually a cyclist's dream. Low traffic, flat, gridded streets for miles and miles and miles. Your biggest encumbrances in reality are probably teenagers and stray dogs.
If you can stay on side streets in Detroit, yes. But biking long distances generally means you have to use the main roads, which they are only recently developing infrastructure on to separate bikes from cars. Separating bike from car lanes is needed even in Detroit since people drive very fast on main roads. And the reason they drive so fast is because there is not much congestion or topography to slow them down. They also time the traffic lights to minimize how often drivers need to stop.
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