Thorn Cycles Forum
Community => Non-Thorn Related => Topic started by: Andre Jute on May 10, 2014, 02:58:41 PM
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Latest American Census Bureau stats about how Americans travel to work, compared to a generation ago:
(http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/the_slatest/2014/05/08/bicycle_commuting_still_not_that_popular/screen_shot_20140508_at_3.31.11_pm.png.CROP.promovar-mediumlarge.31.11_pm.png)
Oh dear...
Or, as Ben Mathis-Lilley of Slate puts it at http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/05/08/bicycle_commuting_still_not_that_popular.html:
"Bicycle Commuting Rates Rocket From 0.5 Percent to 0.6 Percent in Only 32 Years"
He wonders whether cycling to work is "the indulgence of a relatively negligible number of urban elites".
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Somewhat similar to Australia - extensive urban sprawl throughout the urban and suburban centres. Long distances to travel between cities. Ready access to motor vehicles and low fuel prices. It all works towards a certain focus - there is the in-group and the out-group. Guess which one rides bikes? Guess which one gets the transport dollars?
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similar to Australia
...and Canada too. Fear & loathing on suburban arterial roads. Had a good grumble in the wine store this morning, with the cashier & the customer next to me, about just such a road not far from where I live in Ottawa. Our grumbly consensus was that it's not just dangerous, but desperately ugly. :-(