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Well yes, but also some areas have made walking or biking nearly impossible. There are places with no sidewalks, places where there's a giant road sitting between you and your destination with no way for pedestrians to get across it, etc. So yes, there are people who needlessly drive short distances, but often the problem is that an area was built in a way that makes non-driving travel methods hard, dangerous, or impossible
Yeah, pretty much this. I live two miles from a light rail system that gets me straight to work in 20 minutes, and my job pays for public transit. I can drive two miles and park at the rail station and be there in five minutes, or take a bus that adds 50 minutes. Biking the direct route would put me on a narrow road with trees right up to the lane with cars speeding way over. Biking a safer route would detour me a fair bit.
I dont disagree. But this is more aimed at Little Englander types. Hence the bit in there about driving 2 miles. 🤷♂️ It common here for these to be the loudest whingers here.