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It's not wrong to live more than 2 miles from your job, or to have a family, or to want or need to transport more than you can on a bicycle, or to refuse to ris
by alphapapa 12y ago
It's not wrong to live more than 2 miles from your job, or to have a family, or to want or need to transport more than you can on a bicycle, or to refuse to risk your life more than necessary by mixing cycling with automobile traffic.
A friend of mine was killed riding her bike when a cop ran into her. I live in a relatively small city, and traffic was not busy at the time.
It's a simple fact that cycling with automobile traffic is far more dangerous than driving. Take that risk if you want to; it's your life (though if you're killed by a car, it could be your fault, and it could ruin the driver's life too). It's not wrong to refuse to take that extra, unnecessary risk!
If you think that everyone should do what you do or else they're "doing it wrong", you are thinking wrongly.
- angersock 12y agoThere is something very, very wrong/unsustainable at a systems level if people are forced to use cars (or some other singular mode of transportation not based on their own power). Perhaps we need to have goods delivered to us, or have our own supplies of things, or be able to remote in, or whatever... Indeed, if biking is so dangerous, I propose that there is something wrong with the traffic rules--there's a great writeup about how streets were (at the beginning of the 20th century) almost completely mixed-mode transportation and that car companies pushed for redefining norms to plant the idea that they were only for cars. You've been brainwashed.