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[–] quams69@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Lemme just bike from Lansing to Detroit lmfao

The US is huge, I love bikes but they aren't really the solution for like 85% of the country

[–] porthos@startrek.website 25 points 9 months ago

95% of people don’t live or go to 85% of the country? The problem of mass transit has nothing to do with people driving cars around in the middle of nowhere.

[–] Salad_Fries@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

What you're describing is a 200(ish) mile round trip commute.. aka 3(ish) hours in the car. Your post makes it sound like this is just a normal, everyday thing that a majority of Americans do, but its not..

as a daily commute, this is squarely classified as a “super commute”… about 2% of American commuters hate their life enough that they willingly subject themselves to such a grueling commute. Well outside the norm..

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago

A good rail system would've done wonders, but cars would still probably be really useful for more rural areas.

[–] Please_RTFA@slrpnk.net 4 points 9 months ago

That's not even a century ride!

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Seems more like the kind of distance you should be covering on a train. With high speed rail, that distance is easily under an hour.

It's also not really the kind of distance you should be having to commute for that matter.