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I used to live in an exurb of Minneapolis (25 miles) and had to commute to/from the city.

I'm sorry to say that at least for Minneapolis this map is wildly inaccurate. My 25 mile commute would take me, not accounting for unusual weather, at best 1 hour and at worst 2 hours.

I wish I could live in whatever fantasy world they pulled the data from.

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Same for Dallas. My Friday home commute takes 45 min to an hour at 4 pm. It's only 9 miles.

I find it hard to believe one could get into the west side of FW from downtown Dallas in one hour during rush hour.. It's been 8 years since I lived/worked there, but I can't imagine traffic has gotten better.

Why not just bike it?

Sure, if you want to get hit by a car and breathe in tremendous amounts of carbon monoxide.

Most roads in Texas cities are extremely unfriendly for bike traffic.

Marfa is pretty bike friendly ;)

Not to mention arriving at work looking like a wet dishrag. Texas is pretty hot.

I think you will find you are breathing in that carbon monoxide in your car as well.

not true in dallas; every time i went out for a ride, people would just move over

it's a lot friendlier than NYC where folks will honk at you

There is almost zero long-distance biking infrastructure in the DFW metroplex, and drivers tend to be hostile to bicyclists. When I biked (casually and recreationally), I would stay on the sidewalks as much as I could, when they existed - which largely limited me to suburban and semi-urban areas.

There do exist huge and long bike trails, but they only connect arbitrary points of the city - imagine New York, but with all but two subway lines suddenly removed.

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