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Bicycles and scooters aren't year-round solutions for huge parts of the US. You can't optimize your roads for something that is a non-starter for 1/3 to 1/2 of
by favorited 8y ago
Bicycles and scooters aren't year-round solutions for huge parts of the US. You can't optimize your roads for something that is a non-starter for 1/3 to 1/2 of the year.
- radicalbyte 8y agoI doubt that any single solution would work for your entire country. It works fairly well here in The Netherlands. The country is flat but it does have cold winters (two weeks of snow/ice and two-three months of close-to-or-under-freezing temperatures). Whenever I have worked within cycling distance (15km or somewhere with a viable train connection) I've cycled all year round. It would work in a city such as New York (which has a similar climate to here); the metro is already great for the bulk of the journey and bikes/e-bikes would work great for the last part. You'd just have to replace the cars.
- kgermino 8y agoWhere in the US are bikes not suitable for 1/2 the year? Are you thinking areas like Florida and Texas? I can see biking being tough in the hot/humid summer but wouldn't something like an electric scooter (where you're just standing there) be fine?
- Helloworldboy 8y agoEver try to take an electric scooter through snow?
- favorited 8y agoThe last time I was in Florida in August, I was sweating in shorts and a t-shirt. I can't imagine trying to commute to a job that requires a suit.
- kgermino 8y agoThat's fair. My intuition is that a scooter would be ok, but I'm definitely not familiar with the kind of heat they get down there. I'm in Milwaukee WI, 95 and humid is our normal "hot summer day"
- Skunkleton 8y agoLots of places in America have too much rain, cold, or snow for some months of the year too.