Conservatives can’t comprehend this meme
Fucking tories
I wish governments spent billions on bike infrastructure like it does for cars
Its really really hard when car infrastructure directly undermines it.
There’s a really big, new, expensive bridge near me, only for bikes and pedestrians, but nobody uses it. Its because its a fucking pain in the ass to get to with a bike or on foot. Every piece of bike and pedestrian infrastructure has a car shaped obstacle in front of it.
I’d love to walk or bike but I hate stopping at intersections every couple fucking minutes and each one is 3-5 minutes of waiting since I live near a busy road. One time I had to wait 15 fucking minutes. I began timing it with my phone since I was getting so frustrated and that one instance made me stop walking and biking to places. I know its best to walk etc, but where I live, its a huge waste of time
I work only a mile away, I myself can walk a mile in 15 minutes easily. Walking to work in practice takes 30-40 minutes because I’m stuck fucking waiting for most of it. Driving to work takes less than 5 minutes.
Why do the lights take longer on your bike than in your car? Do you ride your bike on the sidewalk?
Yes I ride on the sidewalk. I’m not crazy enough to share a 40 mph road with Americans. Since driving is essential to live, requirements on licenses are very low, as to be obtainable with everybody, from students to the elderly. That’s why retesting is so unpopular, if you fail it, you can’t live until you pass. That’s qlso why DUI’s and other traffic violations have such lenient sentences. There are people amongst the free population with like 2 dozen DUIs. Due to low standards, drivers are terrible, american highways with 60mph speed limits are 2x more dangerous than the autobahn.
In the 70s it was way fucking worse, an American GI injured, in combat, in Vietnam had a better survival rate than victims of a highway carcrash.
Pretty sure it’s hard to spend equal amount used on car infrastructure on bike infrastructure, they might need to overengineer to make bike infrastructure as expensive.
They can spend the surplus on tram though.
Give me trams and trains. Heck, I spend easily over $100 a month on gas, so I’ll happily spend $50 on a tram/train pass.
With all the money states waste on police lawsuits, we could be paying for security salaries for trams/trains.
Just spend all of it on trains/trams and give the roads to the cyclists.
The big bicycle corporations aren’t giving cities enough gifts.
Edit: I’ve just been informed there are no “big bicycle corporations.”
Technically there are. Peugeot makes bikes. They also make cars.
Playing on both sides
Some of us would rather eat glass than ride a bike. The idea of a city with just bikes is a nightmare
The thing about cities like Amsterdam is that bikes aren’t dominant, they coexist with everything else. I recently had the opportunity to drive a car there and it’s honestly great, because bike traffic is separated. Unlike back home where bike lanes are attached like a cancer to the road and you constantly have to fear those suicidal maniacs dropping in front of you. But that’s only because they have nowhere else to go, in Amsterdam they do and so the only time you have to worry about them is on a left turn out of a tight parking street, AKA once a trip MAX.
I don’t think anyone wants it to be just bikes. More so that cars aren’t the only way you can get around.
For instance, we’d also like trains.
Trains, walking, skateboards, literally all other forms of transportation.
Ok, fine, I’ll agree to a careless society once my city has a decent transit system, not this pathetic shit we have. You bike people really hate the elderly and handicapped people, you literally don’t care about anyone who can’t physically ride a bike. But anyways, a careless society is a stupid, childish fantasy
