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by nine_k 1596 days ago
Walkable and bikable space tends to be urban, with high(er) density. Else you can't walk or bike to enough places for walking and biking to matter.

Either this, or a thick network of trains and buses in suburbia, which is hard and expensive to build, and is also noisy. Plentiful suburban trains mostly exist where they were built 100-150 years ago, and are seen as normal for a long time.

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I live in Huddinge, Sweden, a suburban part of Stockholm some 15 km away from the city center.

I have many busses and a commuter train line as options to move around, I can bike as well given the many bike lanes connecting all the way from the city to even further away suburban areas.

It's not noisy at all, I hear the deers eating grass in my garden while the train station is some 800 meters away. Busses pass by the avenue a block away from the house and I never hear them.

Not sure what you'd consider noisy but I don't really experience that and have plenty of ways to go around without a car.