Except that I frequently use bicycles and public transit outside the city.
I think that’s a pathetic excuse to justify a carcel mentality.
I have done quite a lot of kilometers by bike (For some time I did 350km commute per week on the bike!), and I can tell you with certainty that there is weather for which you won’t find appropriate clothing, at least not for such distances.
Eh, I did similar commutes and that’s not a problem. Even if the distance is an issue, there’s always an electric bicycle.
Do you really expect me to somehow put my handicapped wife on a tandem and drive 20+km (one direction) to a medical appointment in the city this afternoon, just to appease some peoples car hate?
I expect people to bend their regional lack of good public transit and bicycle pathes, into a fostering of it, rather than turning into a criticless, soulless cynical praise of a vehicle of pollution and danger. When we face situations as yours, should the answer not be to deflect criticism of the car, but to support bicycle paths and public transit being common and affordable, even in sparse areas?
There are disability-friendly bicycles, ranging from wheelchair bicycles to riksha-like ones, and laying bicycles, and so on. Electric as well, if needed. Did you assume I wouldn’t be aware of these options?
Nice strawman, assuming I’m young when you don’t know how old I am. Maybe you could try ceasing to invent excuses for not bicycling and using public transit, and instead foster support of both?
It is perfectly reasonable for anyone who does not waste ones live stuck in public transport or on a bike.
be me, carcel
HONK HONK HONK
VROOM, oops kid driven over. oh well it’s no biggie since my car didnt get a scratch!
oh no!!! I need to find a parking spot for my Mega Tiny Dick Hummer Dodge Ram Maxx 1000.
HONK HONK
get speeding ticket because they changed speed limits a few days ago and you didn’t notice
tons of parking spaces get added
why is the city so unwalkable?
can’t work or stream on a laptop while travelling
oh yessss baby SLURP me up that money whoring it to the petrol companies
And you expect me to buy or rent one for the up to four times a the year I would need it? Just to please a “oh my glorious bike” minority?
Don’t you care for your wife? Oh, now you say you need it… but some of these bicycles I mentioned are of the types that your wife could use yourself. Also, yes, it’s cheaper. A car might cost €10k per year (petrol, maintenance, paying off loan, etc…) while the handicapped bicycle cost you €3k in total, if not free if you can get it subsidised. Maybe you are part of the problem thinking you’re part of the “oh my glorious car” minority? It is hard, but you must face it: that your mindset IS part of the problem.
Frankly, it’s more and more clear that you actually haven’t gotten the faintest of how cars ruin lives, and are trying to cope inventing excuses to not improve your own life and that of others. Either you support good and affordable public transit + bicycle paths everywhere, or go commit some actual research and actually trying it, instead of lamenting and doing nothing.
Except that I frequently use bicycles and public transit outside the city.
I think that’s a pathetic excuse to justify a carcel mentality.
Eh, I did similar commutes and that’s not a problem. Even if the distance is an issue, there’s always an electric bicycle.
I expect people to bend their regional lack of good public transit and bicycle pathes, into a fostering of it, rather than turning into a criticless, soulless cynical praise of a vehicle of pollution and danger. When we face situations as yours, should the answer not be to deflect criticism of the car, but to support bicycle paths and public transit being common and affordable, even in sparse areas?
There are disability-friendly bicycles, ranging from wheelchair bicycles to riksha-like ones, and laying bicycles, and so on. Electric as well, if needed. Did you assume I wouldn’t be aware of these options?
Removed by mod
Nice strawman, assuming I’m young when you don’t know how old I am. Maybe you could try ceasing to invent excuses for not bicycling and using public transit, and instead foster support of both?
Don’t you care for your wife? Oh, now you say you need it… but some of these bicycles I mentioned are of the types that your wife could use yourself. Also, yes, it’s cheaper. A car might cost €10k per year (petrol, maintenance, paying off loan, etc…) while the handicapped bicycle cost you €3k in total, if not free if you can get it subsidised. Maybe you are part of the problem thinking you’re part of the “oh my glorious car” minority? It is hard, but you must face it: that your mindset IS part of the problem.
Frankly, it’s more and more clear that you actually haven’t gotten the faintest of how cars ruin lives, and are trying to cope inventing excuses to not improve your own life and that of others. Either you support good and affordable public transit + bicycle paths everywhere, or go commit some actual research and actually trying it, instead of lamenting and doing nothing.