Just wondering how people here get around day-to-day.
I personally try to use a bike as much as possible, but end up driving because of the structure of US suburbia and being the friend with a car™.
Living in a small Dutch city (~90k) near a major city, where I work.
- Walking to local square with supermarkets/hairdressers/cafe’s/etc. Just a few minutes.
- Cycling pretty much everywhere else in the city, mostly visiting family and friends.
- Public transport everywhere else (which makes up the bulk). Two bus stops in ~5 min walk, railway station <10 min bike ride.
Only in the last few years have I come to appreciate how lucky I am to live in such a well designed place. What my hometown does especially well is traffic segregation - there’s a good network of carfree/lite routes throughout the city. Not just great for cycling but also running.
NYC - walking and subway! I had a car and now I’m so happy to live in an area I don’t need it. Also on the plus side, my calves have grown substantially…
I pretty exclusively bike and subway! Being in NYC makes it easy to do so.
Small ish city in the Midwest. Car. Fortunately I enjoy driving and like my car (Mazda 3). Putting on some tunes or a podcast is a good way to work up to and wind down from the office.
Hamburg, Germany: I don’t own a car and get around by by a mix of bike/Public/walking transport. If I need to transport big I either ask a friend or rent a car, though those occasions are extremely rare (less then once a year). Longer distances I also travel by public transport.
In decreasing order of frequency: on foot, bike, tram, bus, local trains, subway.
I live in Berlin and we are blessed with a very good public transport system but absolutely atrocious pedestrian and cycling paths (and bad roads too). So, on foot and by bike are not exactly pleasant, but they are still the fastest modes of completing the standard daily trips.
@omenmis Romanian here: I take public transit haha.
I live in Bucharest where there’s a really extensive tram network. Basically on the majority of boulevards having at least 2 lanes there’s a tram line (with some notable exceptions ofc). In recent years, they’ve been separated by fences from the car traffic as the drivers use to go on the tracks, especially when waiting at the traffic light, which make it a pain for the trams as they cannot go around.
Besides that, there’s a plethora of bus lines going everywhere in the city and the current mayor promised that he will install some bike parkings around the sector (yes, Bucharest is split in 6 sectors - kinda like the arrondissements in Paris and other French cities - each with it’s own mayor), so I’m looking forward to see if anyone gets built nearby (I heard that these places get reserved at light speed). Bucharest is really lacking in bike infrastructure and car is seen as a status symbol, even in such a place.
