I don’t know why every time someone mentions cycling or walking, someone has to reply “what about people who drive 2 hours to work across the desert with a safe in the back of the car”? Yeah, not everyone can, but that doesn’t stop those who could. I cycle 16 miles a day to work and back, and I’m a lazy overweight 58 year old. If I can, most people who travel the same distance could.
Because even if I could, the infrastructure here in Austin won’t let me bike to work, not that I would anyway simply because people here drive like idiots and there’s no way I’m biking on the same roads as them.
Can’t afford housing close to the current job, any jobs close to home don’t pay a living wage.
In my small town’s case, if you want to live and work here, your options are fast food, a truck stop, or the police. And the latter two are not hiring.
So for me, I commute to the nearest city, which is luckily only ~40-60 minutes depending on the time of day.
Again, I’m not saying that you personally have to cycle, just that for many people there is actually a very low bar for them to do it. The examples of impossible situations every time cycling is suggested aren’t relevant, and just as pointless as someone saying everyone should be compelled to cycle.
I don’t know why every time someone mentions cycling or walking, someone has to reply “what about people who drive 2 hours to work across the desert with a safe in the back of the car”? Yeah, not everyone can, but that doesn’t stop those who could. I cycle 16 miles a day to work and back, and I’m a lazy overweight 58 year old. If I can, most people who travel the same distance could.
Because even if I could, the infrastructure here in Austin won’t let me bike to work, not that I would anyway simply because people here drive like idiots and there’s no way I’m biking on the same roads as them.
Move? Why do people live 2 hours away from work?
Can’t afford housing close to the current job, any jobs close to home don’t pay a living wage.
In my small town’s case, if you want to live and work here, your options are fast food, a truck stop, or the police. And the latter two are not hiring.
So for me, I commute to the nearest city, which is luckily only ~40-60 minutes depending on the time of day.
Again, I’m not saying that you personally have to cycle, just that for many people there is actually a very low bar for them to do it. The examples of impossible situations every time cycling is suggested aren’t relevant, and just as pointless as someone saying everyone should be compelled to cycle.