Re: Daytime running light popularity

On 11/8/2024 9:17 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

 ...  Then 'second car' became popular along with urban area
dispersal (some say 'sprawl'). And so on until now, when
even children seldom walk anywhere except through a mall.

 That’s quite a different experience to mine, I and others walk around a
lot, if I want to go to bike shop or get bread or pharmacy or cafe etc this
is all a 5 min walk, I need some sugar and few other bits so will wander
that way shortly.

"quite a different experience to mine" should be treated as very significant!

I don’t use bikes particularly for utility bar commuting and few other
bits, more leisure. Though some in the street have cargo bikes for ferrying
kids to places.
 But I have a bus stop 30s from my doorstep to a larger town with malls and
riverside pubs and so on.

There seems to be exactly one bus route that passes near my house, although I'll admit the transit website is very difficult to use. Unfortunately, buses don't go where I ever need to go. From what I can tell, my most common destination is one hour and twenty minutes away by bus. It's less than 20 minutes by car, thanks to the freeway.

And a train station that I can get also into said town or central and so
on, easily.

There is zero passenger train service here. We once took Amtrak home from Oregon. At that time, we were able to get off in the center of Youngstown, but that's not been true for many, many years. Interestingly, our bikes couldn't be unloaded here. We had to later drive to Pittsburgh to fetch them.

None of these journeys do cars make sense, while people do it’s a royal
pain.

Here, nothing but car use makes sense, unless trips are very short or a person is very dedicated to another choice. Essentially the entire nation is that way.
Wishing and talking about "political will" won't change that in the foreseeable future.
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- Frank Krygowski