Personal autonomy? The car is your ball and chain. It's pretty common to hear about people wholly avoiding parts of town because the parking is annoying for exa

Personal autonomy? The car is your ball and chain. It's pretty common to hear about people wholly avoiding parts of town because the parking is annoying for example. Now everywhere you go in live you have to find a spot to legally keep this huge hunk of metal. Meanwhile, with a bike, I'm finding its often the fastest vehicle in town when there's any surface street gridlocking going on. I can filter past all the traffic to the front of the intersection, I'm always going the same speed no matter traffic and don't have to plan for it at all. I can park wherever for free and sometimes can even just bring the bike inside.