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I just want to get my city’s bike infrastructure to the point where my SO doesn’t tell me I can’t ride to the grocery store because some MF will almost certainly run me over.
Cars are the ultimate mode of transportation. When I go to the store I drive my car. Then when I have to go from the parking lot to the store itself I drive another car. Then when I have to move around the store I drive another smaller car.
it’s genuinely so dystopian to me that some Americans are forced to use a car from their houses to the store… they have to spend money on petrol every time they just wanna get a little something from a corner store. talk about a restrictive society… I get why delivery apps are popular there.
Hah, imagine a corner store…
And there it is.
Mind you, different pressures make different designs. Part of the reason the Netherlands has great mass transit is they got bombed to hell in WWII. The cities were also initially grown out of medieval designs.
that is why fancy people wear fancy bicycle clothes when they go for a “training” ride … they want you to know that they can afford a car; they aren’t some random poor going to work on a bicycle. they have cars for that.
We often call them MAMILs (Middle Aged Men In Lycra)
Buying an expensive road bicycle has been described as a more healthy and affordable response to a midlife crisis than buying an expensive sports car.
Incredible.
Suburban types literally flex on how deadly their car is… If they get in the accident the other car has no chance and passengers will die but that’s ok because that’s a small price to lay for the driver to “feel” safer.
They enjoy cos playing as blue-collar workers. They need you to think the work they do is important.
Excuse me while I go for a jaunte.
