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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

A) I've no licence

B) I've no car

C) The only transport near where I live is a bus every hour.

D) there are no fast food places near me outside of a Chinese takeaway that's a 5-10 minute walk up and down steep hills.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

A bike isn't an option everywhere, especially in the US. My parents are from the Netherlands, where almost everyone bikes almost everywhere. When they moved to the US, my dad biked to work. Once. To my knowledge, in the 30 years they lived here, he's never decided to try it again.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

One of the games I play on my commute is imagining what the bike route would be like. I looked it up once and every path included a high traffic street with no sidewalk; where I live, that's straight up flirting with death. Cycling in my area requires a large group and/or limited capacity for risk assessment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

The only bikes I see on my drive are there in memorial to someone who died there on a bike.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Not with that attitude.