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What I'm talking about here applies to the urban downtown where traffic is usually congested and slow. The situation you're describing is more like stroads and
by entropicgravity 5y ago
What I'm talking about here applies to the urban downtown where traffic is usually congested and slow. The situation you're describing is more like stroads and highways where bigger is better. Driving a cybertruck in congested downtown traffic is not something that most drivers would look forward to. A zippy ebike would get them where they're going faster and more conveniently.
- asdff 5y agoIt's not easy for people to pick up that confidence to be honest. I know people who would be freightened to share the road with such heavy traffic. Even when I lane split I hold my breath, because in gridlocked traffic drivers typically muscle over between lanes without looking and rarely signalling, prime opportunity for you to hit an unexpected broadside. Not to mention the risk of being doored going past streetparked cars, people have like died from that. When I bike in town now I have to navigate around these heavy trafficked sections, favoring roundabout residential roads that usually take me longer than the direct path on stroads (bad in traffic for above, bad when they are clear since people go 60mph if no one is ahead of them). It's just not pleasant riding out on these congested streets or open stroads after you've had a number of close calls. I used to do it a lot but I've lost my appetite for that unfortunately, and my city is not building bike lanes at any decent pace in my neighborhood which is depressing. I support transit and bikes but at this point I'm taking a car out for everything because its three times as fast as the bus, and I'm not worrying about getting my head smashed by someone texting in a G wagon like on my bike.