• @SkippingRelax
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    98 months ago

    Pretty sure bikes have serviced rural communities since well before cars were a thing

    • @TORFdot0
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      38 months ago

      rural communities also used to have better rail infrastructure as well. With our current car prioritizing infrastructure, you are going to have a hard time convincing rural people give up the agency that a automobile gives them with regards to being able to have a career, grocery shop, get their kids to school, etc.

      Hopefully remote work can fix that first problem as that will help the other issues as well.

    • @[email protected]
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      18 months ago

      The safety bike was invented in 1885 and the model T was invented in 1908. So the precar bike heyday was pretty short.