• quams69@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Lemme just bike from Lansing to Detroit lmfao

    The US is huge, I love bikes but they aren’t really the solution for like 85% of the country

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      10 months ago

      What you’re describing is a 200(ish) mile round trip commute… aka 3(ish) hours in the car. Your post makes it sound like this is just a normal, everyday thing that a majority of Americans do, but its not…

      as a daily commute, this is squarely classified as a “super commute”… about 2% of American commuters hate their life enough that they willingly subject themselves to such a grueling commute. Well outside the norm…

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      10 months ago

      Seems more like the kind of distance you should be covering on a train. With high speed rail, that distance is easily under an hour.

      It’s also not really the kind of distance you should be having to commute for that matter.