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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
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Cycling, outside of the few separated bike trails, is a death wish in TX.
What do you mean? You can use the sidewalks that randomly end for no reason, use bridges with 3ft of space right next to the car lane, and oblivious drivers on their phones using the whole lane and some of the next.
And it is against the Law to ride a Bicycle on the Sidewalk here.
It's Texas, so do what Texans do best: force others to recognize your space. Take the lane, or get something like this, up to you if you want to stick something sharp on the end :) But you may want to be armed if you go the more aggressive route.
That's because Texas was built wrong. The solution is to fix it, not push cars instead of bikes.
No one pushed cars. Kindly do not assume things no one stated.
I was speaking generally, not about the people in this thread in particular.
they literally ripped out the streetcars in a conspiracy and got a slap on the wrist fine. cars were absolutely pushed down out throats., why do you think it's so hard to choose not to use one even if you want to?
Current time response to claim of pushing cars in this thread is in no way countered by discussing things that happened somewhere else a hundred Years ago.
I walk as much as possible in Texas, but I would never ride a bike. Seeing how drivers are everywhere I have lived here beat that notion out of me.
Most of the south TBH. Even in my southern college town which was actually designed around bike infrastructure, I had to stop because I kept getting hit.
That's a car problem, solved by the removal of said cars.