> I usually don't but I truly believe this. Thanks > Consider a bike that needs to travel 15 minutes. That trip would take a car 5 minutes. It depends on a l

> I usually don't but I truly believe this. Thanks > Consider a bike that needs to travel 15 minutes. That trip would take a car 5 minutes. It depends on a lot of things. Where I live, if unlucky, the closest parking space is a 5 min walk. Say you need just 3 minutes to get from the door to the road. My bicycle is parked next to my door. It takes 10 seconds, 15 including acceleration. When at the destination things are roughly the same. You lose 6 min vs 30 seconds. We keep adding more cars to the roads, you use to be able to get around really fast, this is increasingly not the case, specially in a city. Bicycles can do with very crappy road, a thin layer of asphalt will last a really long time. Cars destroy roads quite fast, specially the heavier ones. They deal some damage to buildings, I don't know how much. The fumes aren't very nice the noise is a problem. Space isn't exactly cheap in cities, all those big roads consume quite a bit of it. It is kinda ironic how we use cars to get to nice places and build roads where nice places could have been. I read something like 40% of the space in cities is consumed by parking. With housing many stories tall, smaller apartments that people cant afford the ratio is pretty weird. Lots of pets, children and old people cant really go outside because we've turned the city into a race track. For trips under 20 min bicycles are fantastic. Cars are clear winners beyond. In a congested area for anything under 10 min, with reasonable fitness bicycles are twice as fast. The first 20 min of cycling actually takes 0 minutes worth of life span. Outside the city having your own launch pad/drive way, few things within cycling distance, it seems to make perfect sense to use cars. Assuming either bicycles or cars as a design goal, in the city the "hidden" inconvenience is much greater than the convenience of having cars all over the place. They are mostly just sitting there not moving and the rest of the time they crawl around "bothered" by countless things.