Who besides rich boys can afford to ride their bikes to work?
i bike to work in no small part because i can’t afford to drive there
Single mothers getting their kids to elementary and middle schools?
in civilized countries, they can use a cargo bike (what the dutch call a bakfiets) to carry the kids. or the kids can ride their own bikes.
The elderly going to their doctors appointments?
many elderly people can still cycle. you may even see electric assist tricycles on the bike path in civilized countries. and of course elderly people also benefit from accessible and convenient public transit.
Working stiffs who can’t afford to live in downtown?
this is a real concern and i absolutely share your desire to build large-scale dense public housing developments in downtown around transit stations, as well as doing the same around more outlying transit stations such that taking public transit also becomes a viable option.
What do you think will happen to rents when is forced to get an apartment in one of the existing blocks?
wait, i thought you wanted to build public housing to address housing affordability? was that just me offering a solution, and not you? that’s weird
i bike to work in no small part because i can’t afford to drive there
in civilized countries, they can use a cargo bike (what the dutch call a bakfiets) to carry the kids. or the kids can ride their own bikes.
many elderly people can still cycle. you may even see electric assist tricycles on the bike path in civilized countries. and of course elderly people also benefit from accessible and convenient public transit.
this is a real concern and i absolutely share your desire to build large-scale dense public housing developments in downtown around transit stations, as well as doing the same around more outlying transit stations such that taking public transit also becomes a viable option.
wait, i thought you wanted to build public housing to address housing affordability? was that just me offering a solution, and not you? that’s weird
That is not a solution, it is a communist fantasy.
How are you supposed to have busses without roads?
So all we have to do is get rid of rent and make everyone live in government housing,
Magically levitate supplies into the stores,
Get my 90 year old parents and people with sick infants to bike in to the doctors in the snow and rain,
So these lawyers on their $2,000 carbon fiber Trek bicycles can win their argument at city hall.
Speaking of fantasy, you certainly have some interesting thoughts bouncing around in your head.
Next time there is someone whining about this at your city council look at who it is. It will be a rich white boy.
Next time someone on a bike is blocking rush hour traffic even though there is a bike lane, look who it is.
It will be a rich guy on an expensive bicycle.
“Communist fantasy”? Oh my god. Are you for real? You sound insane.
When you know you are wrong, you can always switch to ad hominem attacks
Saying dense urbanism with plentiful public housing is a “communist fantasy” is literally too dumb to dignify with a response.
Meet me in Vienna and I’ll buy you a beer.
I am pretty sure that they have roads in Vienna.