Cycling is rare because Americans live too far away from things to cycle anywhere. I’m about to do some last minute Christmas shopping. It’ll take me 1:10 minutes to get to Target by bus. It’ll take me 8 minutes driving. Cycling would be 18 minutes, but that’s just the first stop. (Also, I’d have to carry a bunch of stuff back on a bike, and it’s very cold and icy outside.) Biking to work or even the closest train station would be a multi-hour trip.
Biking is for childless yuppies and people in third world countries. It’s inconvenient, inflexible, and uncomfortable. We have cars in the first world and they make life immeasurably better. To the extent pollution is a problem, we can and already are addressing those problems with electric vehicles.
Biking is for childless yuppies and people in third world countries. It’s inconvenient, inflexible, and uncomfortable. We have cars in the first world and they make life immeasurably better. To the extent pollution is a problem, we can and already are addressing those problems with electric vehicles.