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Jim Ledford

It's cheaper to buy a bicycle and go out riding past lots of road frontage. At the slower speed of the bicycle, with nothing to block your view of roadside nearby, you can easily spot lots of trash. On a warm day you might also smell some of it.

I wonder about these studies. Most of the motor traffic on secondary rural roads involves people who live and-or work in the area. City dwellers who take road trips are more likely to stick to major highways; navigating a maze of secondary rural roads is much slower and also a good way to get lost. Since you probably cannot purchase frontage on an interstate highway, most of the trash-tossing rural traffic would have to be due to rural inhabitants.

Although this is far from a scientific observation, when I tell my fellow city dwellers the names of the obscure secondary rural roads I like to include in my recreational bicycling routes, almost invariably the city dwellers will not have heard of them (unless they are also bicyclists who take long-ish rides). That's what makes those roads good for bicycling: what traffic they do carry is mostly local, and there aren't too many locals.

It's pretty easy to look at USGS topographical maps and guess which roads have little traffic. You simply note the density of map symbols along the roads that indicate buildings. Few buildings, little traffic. If a road has few buildings along it, you note whether that road is a direct route between two separate concentrations of buildings.

Most driving is from one building to another building. People don't usually drive somewhere and then sit outside in a field. Aside from a few hunters and hikers, and maybe some purely recreational drivers, driving is usually about work, school, shopping, visits to relatives, church, etc. generally involving buildings at both ends.

The street sweeper only cleans the streets, not the property fronting the streets. How would street sweepers clean your property? Much of the trash in your property probably never touched the street.

No, they are scared of young men.

-- the Danimal