Oh wow, I didn’t realize that. I think it would behoove the community to have more than one mod, though I do realize it can be thankless work…

Interesting insight. I hope your new city/town is a better fit for you!

https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-trucks-do-our-roads

The wear and tear to a road is proportional to the fourth power of the weight of the vehicle, which means cars cause orders and orders of magnitude more damage to roads than bikes. And the gas tax doesn’t even come close to covering road maintenance costs, so we bike riders have been covering the costs of roads through our taxes anyway.

Culs-de-sac by definition lead to nowhere. It can be pleasant to take a neighborhood stroll in one them, but if you want to actually get from one side of town to the other, you’re going to need to get on a main road. And in Holden, like many towns in North America (but not Cambridge) doesn’t really have provisions for bicycles on its arterials.

Mass Ave is probably one of the principal routes through Cambridge, and has protected bike lanes on good chunks of it. Memorial Dr is another and the river bike paths runs parallel. And once you arrive at your destination, there is actually bike parking.

I’ve actually been to Holden. Biked through it while I was riding my bike to Amherst. There are certainly problems with Cambridge, but calling Holden more bikeable than Cambridge is just so laughable. And that’s why I put up with the problems in Cambridge - I like living in a place where people actually commute by bike.