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Originally Posted by pdxtex
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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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.