• LeadersAtWork@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Be American

    Living paycheck to paycheck

    Need job

    Good worker

    Work overtime when needed

    Trying to pay off car

    Smug biker does a driveby near open car window

    Rethink my life

    Realize U.S. infrastructure often requires vehicles

    In middle of daily 40min commute, one way

    Realize the same distance on bike would be two hours

    Depresso

    • DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Get a closer job or move closer to your job if it’s a good reliable job. I did and it’s fucking wonderful! Riding gets easier and easier as you get stronger and better cardio too.

      Took me a long time, a lot of work, and some luck but I can’t recommend it enough. Most days I ride my bike or skateboard, but even walking doesn’t take long. I only resort to a car if I’m too injured to ride/skate/walk far or the weather makes it too dangerous (which is rare, I’ve ridden through more storms than I can count lol, icy conditions suck though).

      Damnit, now I want to go for a ride.

      • drislands@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        >just get a job closer to your home
        >just move

        Idk man, not sure either of those are the easy solutions you’re implying them to be.

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      This is why we need good public transit on top of good biking infrastructure. The two working together let’s you get anywhere a car can go while not taking a lot longer.

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        You’re not wrong, but that’s not going to work over the entire country. There’s just too much space to cover; the country would go bankrupt trying to provide mass transit everywhere that it’s needed. So while this could be, if you could convince people to actually do it, a solution in urban areas, it’s never going to work out in the thousands of miles of country and they have the exact same problems. They just have less traffic and more empty space to cross.