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Get a bicycle? I can ride 22km (about twice your commute?) in 1 hour in Australia, and that's being overweight and unfit.. sadly can't do it every day but if /
by sundvor 10y ago
Get a bicycle? I can ride 22km (about twice your commute?) in 1 hour in Australia, and that's being overweight and unfit.. sadly can't do it every day but if / when I could do it every day I'd do it much faster too.
Alas I'm driving my own car most days (3-4 days a week) and that's about $20 in toll fees and fuel, not including finance, insurance, reggo and maintenance. It takes from 40-60 minutes each way, so a bit but not significantly faster than riding.
Still if I used uber I'd be looking at $50 each way, easily making car ownership have lower TCO. There's no Lyft in Melbourne, Australia.
- colmvp 10y agoI'm a proponent of bicycles, but I acknowledge they aren't a perfect solution for everyone. A city without proper bike lanes or with drivers with contentious attitudes towards bicyclists can make for a problematic and stressful commute. That's also not getting into weather changes. It's unequivocally true that biking in winter can be more dangerous and less enjoyable than biking in warmer temperatures. I personally quite enjoyed biking in beautiful Melbourne, especially along the Portsea Return. But in my home city, the infrastructure is decades behind a truly safe environment for cyclists. Despite the fact that the city is constantly growing and the mass transit system is barely making ends meet, the city council still bickers over the merits of creating more bike lanes which only add to the "War on the Car."