Originally Posted by
referee54
For one, Americans are going to not only change that aspect of their lives, but they also need to change where they live relative to whee they work. There are people who work in Cleveland who commute over an hour to an hour-and-a-half a day---one way.
TSC
When I worked in Cleveland my commute was 45 miles each way...most days I split the commute between the car and the bike or between the a bus and the bike. Decent mass transit allows people to have long commutes. If we took a cue from the Japanese, long commutes using both bike and mass transit would be an easy alternative for Americans...but nationwide, our mass transit infrastructure is even less developed than our cycling infrastructure.
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