I would have to walk for 40+ minutes to get to the closest bus or train stop. What am I supposed to do to get to work but drive my car? I’m not doing a 3 hour bike ride to work everyday….
All you need to do, is always use the best option. Not be one of those people who drives everywhere, even when its in walking distance, or easily accessed by public transit.
If your city doesn’t have those options, voting for them, is what you’re supposed to do. Don’t be one of those people who run cyclists off the road, or go apeshit when a lane is taken away somewhere, in order to add one for bikes.
No-one is riding a bike 3 hours anywhere, except for sport. But we shouldn’t drive for 30 minutes if a slight alteration in infrastructure would allow getting there in 15 minutes on a bike.
The problem isn’t cars. The problem is land use deliberately designed to make anything that’s not a car non-viable.
Imagine if you will urban planning that doesn’t surround every business with a concrete moat and every pancaked home with a football field of yard that most will rarely ever use. Planning that doesn’t segregate every building function into distinct zones and make each zone as large as possible so you have no choice but to travel long distances for EVERYTHING.
I would have to walk for 40+ minutes to get to the closest bus or train stop. What am I supposed to do to get to work but drive my car? I’m not doing a 3 hour bike ride to work everyday….
All you need to do, is always use the best option. Not be one of those people who drives everywhere, even when its in walking distance, or easily accessed by public transit.
If your city doesn’t have those options, voting for them, is what you’re supposed to do. Don’t be one of those people who run cyclists off the road, or go apeshit when a lane is taken away somewhere, in order to add one for bikes.
No-one is riding a bike 3 hours anywhere, except for sport. But we shouldn’t drive for 30 minutes if a slight alteration in infrastructure would allow getting there in 15 minutes on a bike.
Integrated transport. Bike+bus or train or whatever.
The problem isn’t cars. The problem is land use deliberately designed to make anything that’s not a car non-viable.
Imagine if you will urban planning that doesn’t surround every business with a concrete moat and every pancaked home with a football field of yard that most will rarely ever use. Planning that doesn’t segregate every building function into distinct zones and make each zone as large as possible so you have no choice but to travel long distances for EVERYTHING.