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[-] Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

A benefit of starting with a park-and-ride setup is, if you have good protected bike lanes and secure bike parking, you can encourage a lot of bike and ebike trips to the transit hubs. If every suburb isn't too far from a transit hub, that makes a compelling case for bikes and ebikes as first- and last-mile solutions for a lot of people. Maybe not everyone, and maybe not overnight, but definitely for a lot of people. And any improvement is still improvement.

[-] echo@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I understand what it means, but "last mile" is a really funny term because walking a mile is apparently inconceivable to the average american

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Man, I'm fat as fuck and I still regularly walk 2 miles to go get junk food. 1 mile there, 1 mile back. Once walked 5 miles cuz I got lost on a hiking trail and that sucked. But mostly due to being lost in the god damn woods.

[-] DrAnthony@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You know, the bike wrinkle is something I hadn't even considered. That's an awesome point and all the more reason why we need to build a better transit system.

[-] chocoladisco@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Multimodal transport is amazing. Ride bike to station - ride a fast train - ride from station to destination.

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