With trains, you don’t arrive sweaty, you can’t get run down by cars, and someone else parks it
I ride a bike to work every day. I’m never sweaty. The infrastructure to cycle exists so I won’t get run over by cars.
Where I live I wouldn’t want to bike. Too many freaking hills
Hills are only the problem if you’re not biking regularly. I’m way out of shape, but after a year on living in a country with good infrastructure, hills aren’t a problem for me anymore, really. But first couple of months it was a bit brutal, for sure.
I have an electric bike for the hills.
Where I used to work it was downhill all the way there and uphill all the way back stupid way round of having it don’t want to get to work early.
The Japanese used bikes to defeat the British in Singapore. The Vietnamese used bikes to defeat the Americans in Vietnam. The Chinese used bikes to destroy manufacturing in the west.
I’ll be in the cold cold ground before I use some stupid commie machine powered by rice.
All other arguments for not using a bike are stupid.
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I never learned how to ride a bicycle, I should really get to it someday. I just walk everywhere I need to go, or use carpooling/bus/subway…
"Cars are freedom! *
Except for the monthly finance payment, the legal obligation to insurance companies, the dependance on oil companies, etc"
No need for parking
Yeah, just look how Nederlands or Belgium looks like xD
Rookie numbers.
Have you ever seen a walmart parking lot in person? You can fit the Netherlands and part of Belgium in one.
Bruh I live 26 miles from where I work by car, and 21 miles by biking per Google Maps. And most of it is highway travel. It would make my commute over 1.5 hrs.
It is the dream if/when we can move closer though.
if entire cities were designed around these the way they are with cars, everyone would be fine with it and you would live less than 6 miles from where you work.
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I live in the hills. bikes are a pain in the dick over here :(
Ebikes fix that problem in most situations.
Awww, you think bicycles can’t work in the snow?
Bikes are ableist aren’t they? They work well for you if you don’t have any physical or cognitive issues.
There are bikes for handicapped people. And if cognitive issues are a thing, then cars would be far more problematic: crash a bike into a person, you get minor wounds. Crash a car into a person, and you get a death caused by the car driver (who sometimes gets off scot free).
And if something is ableist, it’s cars for disabling you from walking/wheelchairing anywhere safely due to the stroads taking up all the space.
A bike centric city would be just as, if not more, wheelchair friendly as a car centric one. There’s detachable front wheels that can be attached to wheelchairs and pedalled by hand so wheelchair users can use bike infrastructure just as well.
Cars sure as hell don’t work for someone who has cognitive issues.
If we were talking about banning cars entirely, that would be relevant.
Can’t sleep in it. Gotta haul your groceries. Won’t get you to the next state and back.
Y’all are deluded.
This remark probably won’t convince you, but it can help for others.
So, for groceries you can use a bicycle bag on the back of your bicycle. Or a bag bearer. Or a bicycle with an extra long back.
For going to the next state there’s something called “grow more muscle”. I know obese people here who manage to bike that distance easily.
As for sleep, that’s for a bed. But that said, there are bicycles with which you can bicycle sitting/laying in a comfortable position (recumbent bicycles). Some of them also look look cool as hell (velomobiles).
- Will be yours for an average of 1.2 days in a major city before it gets stolen
Unless everyone has a bike.
Think about it. No need to steal if it’s easy as fuck to obtain.
Bikes aren’t stolen to ride. They’re stolen to sell for drugs.
Sold to who?
This is not the best argument. You could sell literally anything for drugs.
If you wanted to tackle drug selling, the following works better:
a) helping homeless people to get a home, b) unemployed people to get a job w/ livable wage, c) and having safe drugs made by hospitals under strict controls, and used by addicts in controlled environments like hospitals.
The last one especially is crucial, however paradoxical it seems. It’s because then they don’t need to buy from other addicts or the sellers (who will be very dangerous), and don’t overdose, and with the extra money, can pay eg. rent, groceries.
The “just kick off from drugs” doesn’t work - if you ever have had an addiction, you know that it’s hard. It only gets easier to kick off if other bad factors in life are removed. Only then is kicking off easier.
Now, let’s wonder about cars…
Only if you have the bicycle equivalent of a Ferrari and don’t lock it. Same as cars really.
Cause you can’t actually GO anywhere on a bike. If you want to go somewhere 200 miles away for a week, it’d take a day and a half each way, minimum, and you can’t bring anything with you bigger than a backpack. It’s also physically strenuous to go literally anywhere, even the places you are allowed to go.
cities should look like this: bicycle/walking paths, trains, trams and buses. and a tiny road for the rare occasion you actually NEED a car. boom, problems solved. also mixed use zoning, rezone every city so it’s more compatible with a non car centric lifestyle
