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It's a great plan if you intend to live the entirety of your life within a 15 mile radius of your house!
GENIUS! ๐คฏ
Or anywhere with public transit. Basically not most of the US
I didn't realize he'd mentioned public transit anywhere in the post. I believe he said he intends to get anywhere he needs to go using only "determination and what I ate for breakfast"... I'm no mechanic but I don't think a bus can run on that
You should be able to have everything you need within 15 miles. Everything I need is within 10 miles from me except my work.
A lot of cities in the world aren't really designed with the 15 mile thing in mind. Sucks.
True, but doesn't mean we can't redesign them. Mixed use zoning would help immensely.
Absolutely, but it's rather a solution for the future and doesn't help them in their current situation, which is probably what they are talking about.
No one tell this guy about Europe!
Moving isn't an easy option. I'm assuming they're commenting from their POV as someone without good public transport etc.
You appear to have missed a line in the OP
The only reason you can't live the majority of your life within that radius is because it was designed otherwise. The vast majority of human society has been within 15 mile radii, and many parts of the world still are that way.
You're probably not going to believe this but not everybody lives in the city.
You're probably not going to believe this but 83% of the us population lives in the city.
You know, it is possibe for a person to have both a bike and a car. A bike is impractical for some situations, a car is wasteful for others.
European here. Most of what I need are within 2 miles, so for most things everyday I ride a bike. For things further away, there's great public transportation. For when we need to transport bigger things or go where it's hard to go by public transport, we do have a car. However, the car gets used at most once per week.
We wouldn't strictly need a car either. There's several car pools around where you can book a car for a few hours when you need it.
Non european here, the only reason I don't have a bike is because of space and hassle (have a tiny apartment with no garage), I could and would do my commute and most errands on bike, it would even be easier and faster.
I can do 90% of my life within 35km of my house, except occasionally work and visiting friends and the occasional hobby. So I can easily do 9 out of 10 trips on a bike
Bikes for intracity, trains for intercity. Rural populations may have specific use cases for cars and trucks, but trains could also be useful.
Just because you use a bike once does not mean you are forbidden from using cars. If you have to go further, you can still take a shared/rented car or your own, if noone lives around you.