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Andre Jute

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Oh dear...
« on: May 10, 2014, 02:58:41 PM »
 
Latest American Census Bureau stats about how Americans travel to work, compared to a generation ago:



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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il padrone

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Re: Oh dear...
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2014, 03:11:01 PM »
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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John Saxby

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Re: Oh dear...
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2014, 06:06:14 PM »
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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.    :-(
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