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Road bikes, actually. It just takes one road, and unfortunately the kind of places that are good to walk in are also fun to bike in. I think as it goes, the 'j
by pasabagi 9y ago
Road bikes, actually. It just takes one road, and unfortunately the kind of places that are good to walk in are also fun to bike in.
I think as it goes, the 'jerk'-ness of riding a loud motorbike is a small subset of the greater jerkness of petrol-based vehicles in general. As a value proposition, widespread car ownership is about the most horrible idea for public transportation imaginable, in most places.
I'm really looking forward to the end of it, to be honest. Public transport has lots of nice side-effects - like increasing general health (through reducing polution, for instance), or making the elderly more able to get around. Cars just have negatives - and most of the time, they're just a really uncomfortable way to sit still in traffic.
- reificator 9y agoThat's why I have a motorcycle. All the personal freedom of a car, minus a touch for inclement weather, but with 70+ MPG. And more entitle to boot. It's not good for the environment/traffic, but I'd like to think I'm helping a little on both pollution and noise.
- pasabagi 9y agoThat actually makes some sense - but I'd still rather everybody used public transport. If you've ever seen a video of what streets used to look like before cars, you can really see what driving has done to public spaces, and perhaps, to our society. It's made us a good bit more atomized, zipping from private space to private space, stuck in these really expensive monads.
- reificator 9y agoI don't know why my phone corrected enjoyable to entitle above, but it's amusing. I don't disagree on public transit, but IMO on an individual level it's not practical until group buyin.