The thing about us nordics is that we’re actually car-centric, our infrastructure makes driving comfortable and convenient by keeping the people who actively don’t want to drive off the roads, and we actually use logic to design the roads.
For example you’ll note that the vast majority of roads here only have one lane in each direction, with more lanes added only at junctions. Because adding lanes in the middle of a road barely ever helps, the junctions are where you need to do fancy stuff because they’re the bottleneck in the system. Hence why we also really really like roundabouts.
The US isn’t car-centric, it’s just outright incorrectly designed and if anything makes driving as miserable as it can possibly be, for most people. Sitting trapped in your car in bumper-to-bumper traffic is barely a thing up here.
The thing about us nordics is that we’re actually car-centric, our infrastructure makes driving comfortable and convenient by keeping the people who actively don’t want to drive off the roads, and we actually use logic to design the roads.
For example you’ll note that the vast majority of roads here only have one lane in each direction, with more lanes added only at junctions. Because adding lanes in the middle of a road barely ever helps, the junctions are where you need to do fancy stuff because they’re the bottleneck in the system. Hence why we also really really like roundabouts.
The US isn’t car-centric, it’s just outright incorrectly designed and if anything makes driving as miserable as it can possibly be, for most people. Sitting trapped in your car in bumper-to-bumper traffic is barely a thing up here.
The roads I travel daily follow the old cow paths from the farms into Boston’s markets.