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Energy efficiency of active travel (walking, cycling, ebike) compared to an electric car (slrpnk.net)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (16 children)

Yeah, micro mobility is great on paper when you’re young and live in an accessible city with flat topography. Years ago I became (and still am) a bicycle commuter and I am ENTIRELY SICK OF IT. I want a fucking car. I am tired of biking in the rain and the snow and the cold. It fucking sucks.

Also If I didnt have the ability to purchase an e-bike recently I’d be fucked with the terrain of the place I am currently stuck living (and even that doesn’t quite cover the situation).

Also I am tired of minor injuries compounding year over year due to the simple fact that I am using my body as both the engine and support structure to move myself, vehicle and cargo around just to live.

It was fun 10 years ago but now I’m just like give me a fucking cargo van.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also I am tired of minor injuries compounding year over year due to the simple fact that I am using my body as both the engine and support structure to move myself, vehicle and cargo around just to live.

I'm sorry you're getting pushback and criticism for this. As someone who physically can't bicycle and struggles with mobility, I strongly support well designed and well maintained walkable communities, bicycle infrastructure, and effective public transit. And I recognize that, for some people, the basic right to travel and work and generally function in society requires personal car ownership.

That doesn't mean I sympathize much with people who live in subdivisions off major highways with no grocery stories within twenty miles - there shouldn't be any community anywhere designed to require car ownership.

But I also don't sympathize much with people who want to ban all personal vehicle ownership from their little 15 minute utopias. Disabled people exist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I agree with this. Cities shouldn't be car exclusive, but eliminating cars completely would also alienate villagers and people living in rural areas, in addition to disabled people.(written by an european who has family in those regions)

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