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Here you also got to be careful crossing, you start walking to cross the street and are halfway and the light already turns. Very dangerous and my neighbor got hit a few years back.
Thankfully, now they are starting to adopt the countdown crossing where it countsdown seconds before light change. Everywhere I have been in the USA all major intersections had this. We are years behind like usual.
No sidewalks. Hilly, blind spots, narrow roads, etc. I love living out here, but it definitely has its downsides. We pay for the greenery and quietness with long commutes and difficult access to transportation and activities.
My town happens to be in an isolated spot. There are other towns in and near the county that are in better locations.
dont worry theres no public transportation in my town either... i have to walk minimum 20 mins to get groceries each way.. often takes me a lot longer tho
erm yea but in america they actually don't have any transport.
Public transport in my city is really bad by British standards - we don't have a tram or an underground and limited suburban rail. We rely on buses basically. It's easy to get by without a car though - there are bus stops every few yards on the same street, in some places they're every 5-10 minutes, but some of the routes are quite long - would take way over an hour to get from one side of the city to the other, and to do that, you would have to go through the city centre on the same bus, or change buses, which is a pain.
Very walkable too.
Outside of London, the best public transport is overall is probably Glasgow or Manchester - Glasgow has a subway and a very extensive suburban railway network, the best outside of London, however, the subway is not very extensive. Manchester on the other hand has an ever-expanding tram network, and a great suburban railway network. I'm jealous of these places for having such great transport networks - our city leaders f***ed up in the 90s when they didn't ask the government for tram cash - they were giving it away like it was going out of fashion back then.
I liked the idea of trams when I was in Amsterdam. Couldn't figure it out though, so never went on it.
The US needs to undergo major infrastructure changes. If cities nearly a thousand years old can adapt, I think the cities and suburbs here can do so too. I know it would be a mess for a while, but it'd be worth it if it's done right.
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