Comment by bluGill
1 day ago
I bike to all of those. Only work is typically so far away that you need to drive, the rest exists in every suburb and is in bike distance.
1 day ago
I bike to all of those. Only work is typically so far away that you need to drive, the rest exists in every suburb and is in bike distance.
Absolutely not in every suburb.
I used to live in a suburb in Sacramento and just walking to the closest grocery store was over an hour
I said bike distance not walk distance. Typically bike speeds are about four times faster than walking speed so your hour walk is fifteen minutes.
I don't know Sacramento, but if it is as hilly as San Francisco you want an ebike which makes the hills level and is even faster.
Sacramento is largely flat. Topo view w/ bike routes indicated: <https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sacramento,+CA/@38.5615711...>
It has reasonably good biking infrastructure, for the US, but suffers badly from sprawl. There's also the summer heat.
San Francisco is hilly (tough riding), but quite compact. It's generally possible to avoid the worst climbs with modest detours.
Sacramento's sprawl means that it has roughly 1/4 the population density of Sacramento. Travel distances are correspondingly longer, and much commercial development (office, retail) is in suburban hubs / malls / office parks, rather than either downtown or in neighbourhood shopping districts, as with SF.
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