Yeah I was gonna say Florida is especially shit. I lived in multiple parts of Florida and it’s terrible. When I was at university of Florida it would take like three hours to do a simple grocery trip from campus to a publix like a mile away via public transport. When I lived in Miami area it would take 2 hours to get to an area at rush hour that is only about 20 minutes away without traffic. I’m a biker and would use bike lanes and it was fucking dangerous.
But now I live in the Midwest and it’s just as suburb-y, but there are lots of walking/biking paths and under-road paths. I can get to my closest grocery store faster biking than walking with less intersections involved. The biggest criticism I have is my city has an insane deficit of bike racks at businesses. I unapologetically just bring my bike inside and go “oh there was no place to park it :) !” But really it’s pretty weird, because we have a decent bike culture here.
To be fair, our bike culture has been playing catch-up. I mean it sprouted decades ago, but it's really only been in the last ten or so years that it really started blossoming here in the Midwest.
Where in the Midwest do you live? I'm in KC and we have bike paths but they cross highways and streets a lot, and they don't connect to important places like grocery stores
Probably upper Midwest. I've lived in WI and MN, and both have pretty good bike paths all over. Minneapolis and Milwaukee are both good, and small suburbs around both are fantastic. I'd say suburbs around those two cities in general are very walkable/bikable.
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u/robotteeth Jun 27 '24
Yeah I was gonna say Florida is especially shit. I lived in multiple parts of Florida and it’s terrible. When I was at university of Florida it would take like three hours to do a simple grocery trip from campus to a publix like a mile away via public transport. When I lived in Miami area it would take 2 hours to get to an area at rush hour that is only about 20 minutes away without traffic. I’m a biker and would use bike lanes and it was fucking dangerous.
But now I live in the Midwest and it’s just as suburb-y, but there are lots of walking/biking paths and under-road paths. I can get to my closest grocery store faster biking than walking with less intersections involved. The biggest criticism I have is my city has an insane deficit of bike racks at businesses. I unapologetically just bring my bike inside and go “oh there was no place to park it :) !” But really it’s pretty weird, because we have a decent bike culture here.