We do know that the whole reason car companies began pushing trucks over cars, is because they know their customers are ignorant suckers, and selling trucks lets them get away with selling a worse product for more money than if they stuck to marketing and improving cars. Period.

People don’t mow their lawns for hours every day. 

The whole lawnmower thing is one of those sneaky “technically” true things, that isn’t practically true. An engine cannot emit more than it takes in, simple physics. Then consider you mow the lawn maybe once a week, maybe a little less. Finally, lawnmowers are actually now subject to emissions regulations, so it’s all…

I’m impressed by how smart your comment is. I’m going to click the star thing.

What does that have to do with this article?

counterpoint: When I take public transportation, I don’t have to drive, I don’t have to find a place to park, I don’t have to fill up at the gas station, etc. Everything is taken care of. All I have to do is look up the schedule and have a watch. And if I live somewhere with a well planned system, it’s often faster A…

Ok, buttercup. 

If your heart can’t handle one mile on a bicycle, you’re in serious trouble healthwise.

Weakling.

Honestly hilarious when people act like cyclists are somehow worse at using the road that any typical car driver. 

what a princess

Normal people aren’t as weak and lazy as you are, and could do much better than seven miles lol. 

In before some sort of “my right to drive my car where it never belonged in the first place is more important than life itself” argument.

It’s been found, time and again, decade after decade, that cars are slower through cities than bicycles. Hell, even Top Gear, the most ludicrously “cars are always the best” guys on the planet found exactly the same thing.

Always funny to me how often people complain about bike lanes, on the idea that cyclists somehow, magically, do not pay any taxes, and therefore shouldn’t use the roads.

I should clarify: I mean investors. Investors would rather sink money to into completely awful, idiotic ideas - than into improving mass transit. 

The big problem is people think cars need to be the end all, be all, for all transport. But the people advocating, buses, trains, bicycles, do not believe those to be the “one best, and only way”. A proper transport system uses vehicles that are appropriate for the job. Cars, on the whole, are actually most…

It’s not ridiculous really, and it is, despite its various faults (and admittedly there are many) a lot cheaper to paint some bike lanes on the street than it is to increase bus service and routes, or build a light rail system. Nobody who studies traffic believes bicycles are the end all, be all, just that getting…

Aaron, I can understand your reaction to a degree, but I live in LA where we have seen foolish ideas like road diets, expanding bike lanes by removing lanes for cars, deliberately requiring new construction to have inadequate parking spaces and spending billions on a high speed rail project that would do nothing to…

Well the “idiots” might have noticed that we’ve been building more roads for the past 100 years, and traffic has never gotten better as a result of it. So, what’s your grand idea?