Originally Posted by
Rollfast
You live in wall to wall suburbialand, B. I was there in the early 80s and it's not much different all the way into Portland from around 30 miles or so out from the last time I drove the interstate around that way in 2000 something?
How many Honda Fits and CR-Vs are behemoths? Does this story correlate well to the Metro zone?
Funny, I went for a 75 mile spin with my spouse on a tandem this morning and only rode fewer than 100 houses, and the majority of those were on a two mile stretch of a single street (I live in the center of town). Much of our area is devoid of suburban housing, though none of it is truly urban.
About the car types: Outside of PDX, the preferred vehicle is a light-duty (van, pick-up, SUV) and a great many of them are true behemoths. True to form, they almost always carry fewer people than my tandem, but consume immense amounts of public space.