Interesting… in the midwest, the burbs would be difficult to cycle for transportation. Stores for example aren’t as crammed as it is in the cities like Chicago, Detroit, and NYC. However in some parts of the burbs there’s plazas right as you leave the neighborhood.
I personally couldn’t use cycling (including motorcycle) as a transportation for just about 99% of the things I do outside of my neighborhood.
There are absolutely people who live in the suburbs and still use some form of micromobility as regular transport. I live in a suburb and commute by bicycle or ebike almost every day unless the weather is really bad or I have to haul something very heavy/big.
I live in the suburbs. Luckily, my city has a somewhat good trail network that can take me 10-15 miles to downtown and I only have to cross a handful of roads at grade. There are places I can’t easily get to with a bike, but the number of places I can get to is much larger than I had thought. A lot of these paths and routes weren’t known to me because they run along creeks and drainages where I can’t see them easily from the road.
On a recent weekday during evening rush hour, I found myself speeding down the freeway at a whopping 5mph wishing I had ridden my bike.
To be fair, there are a lot of places in the suburbs that aren’t bikeable at all, but I think people would be surprised.
I live in rural suburbia and after buying an ebike I almost never drive. That’ll change when winter comes. For now, everything I do often that doesn’t require taking the kids with me, I take the bike. Liquor store, cafe, corner store, park, pleasure ride, picking up a burger or sandwich but not a pizza, exploring, all better on a bike. Better fitness, more enjoyment, and cheaper.
I assume in large cities? In the burbs, people riding bikes for fun… not for transportation.
I live in burbs and use cycle for transit. collar burb though and our public trans is good to.
Interesting… in the midwest, the burbs would be difficult to cycle for transportation. Stores for example aren’t as crammed as it is in the cities like Chicago, Detroit, and NYC. However in some parts of the burbs there’s plazas right as you leave the neighborhood.
I personally couldn’t use cycling (including motorcycle) as a transportation for just about 99% of the things I do outside of my neighborhood.
Isn’t that the problem, though? That cities are built such that the only feasible way to do things in them is to drive?
im in a collar suburb of chicago.
There are absolutely people who live in the suburbs and still use some form of micromobility as regular transport. I live in a suburb and commute by bicycle or ebike almost every day unless the weather is really bad or I have to haul something very heavy/big.
Read the article. 😊 I mean, it’s even in the one sentence summary.
Skill issue. The only reason people there are like that is because the suburbs were designed wrong.
I live in the suburbs. Luckily, my city has a somewhat good trail network that can take me 10-15 miles to downtown and I only have to cross a handful of roads at grade. There are places I can’t easily get to with a bike, but the number of places I can get to is much larger than I had thought. A lot of these paths and routes weren’t known to me because they run along creeks and drainages where I can’t see them easily from the road.
On a recent weekday during evening rush hour, I found myself speeding down the freeway at a whopping 5mph wishing I had ridden my bike.
To be fair, there are a lot of places in the suburbs that aren’t bikeable at all, but I think people would be surprised.
I live in rural suburbia and after buying an ebike I almost never drive. That’ll change when winter comes. For now, everything I do often that doesn’t require taking the kids with me, I take the bike. Liquor store, cafe, corner store, park, pleasure ride, picking up a burger or sandwich but not a pizza, exploring, all better on a bike. Better fitness, more enjoyment, and cheaper.
Seems to be specific to Saanich, BC. It’s about 2k pop/mi2, which is like medium density suburb (single family zoning with small yards).