yes because the average american has made a choice to have a car-centric society with car-centric infrastructure and could totally just not use a car to get 8 miles across town and back for their job every day how silly of us
I guess my grandfather allowed it to happen when his neighborhood got destroyed by Robert Moses in New York. Or there was absolutely nothing that could be done to stop it because he was politically backed.
8 miles isn’t too far to bike! I used to ride about that to commute. When I started, it took me around 40 minutes to get there, and an hour and a half back. Slight incline one direction.
About six months in, I was down to 20ish there, and less than 40 back.
Winter sucked pretty bad, someone got me gore-tex mittens though. Still had my eyelashes freeze
yes because the average american has made a choice to have a car-centric society with car-centric infrastructure and could totally just not use a car to get 8 miles across town and back for their job every day how silly of us
No current American has made that decision. It was made for us after world war II
We’ve chosen to allow it to continue
I guess my grandfather allowed it to happen when his neighborhood got destroyed by Robert Moses in New York. Or there was absolutely nothing that could be done to stop it because he was politically backed.
8 miles isn’t too far to bike! I used to ride about that to commute. When I started, it took me around 40 minutes to get there, and an hour and a half back. Slight incline one direction.
About six months in, I was down to 20ish there, and less than 40 back.
Winter sucked pretty bad, someone got me gore-tex mittens though. Still had my eyelashes freeze
A half hour cycle commute really isn’t far. Almost anyone can do that, almost certainly including your grandma.
The real problem is the lack of infrastructure.