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		thedance on March 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coronavirus has caused a bicycling boom in New Yor... Fundamentally there is no transportation solution to land use problems. If your destinations are inconveniently far apart, no bicycle, tram, bus, or train can fix that. The closest you can get to the convenience of a car without all the externalized social costs is an electric bicycle.

zck on March 14, 2020 [–]

I have an average commute, I'd say, for NYC. It's not like I'm some sort of supercommuter (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-surging-ranks-of-super-comm...).

thedance on March 14, 2020 | [–]

I don’t doubt it but statistically New York has a very high average commute time compared to other American cities.

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