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You sound young, naive and rather self-centered.

It's like you don't have any appreciation at all for the range of other people's experiences and circumstances.

Do you understand that many people are too old to ride a bike? Or that they have newborns? Or that they're disabled? Or that they're young children? Or that they aren't strong enough to ride a bike? Or that some people can't afford to live anywhere near where they work, or where they otherwise need to go? Or that some people are so busy during the day that they don't have a spare minute, and they aren't going to fritter away their precious time on a bike when a car will get them where they need to be in a fraction of the time? Or that most people think the idea of riding a bike on DC streets is practically suicidal?

Also, nobody gives a f*ck about electric bikes. [/quote]

DP...people of all ages ride bikes. People with babies and young kids ride bikes with trailers, or cargo bikes, where people can load up two weeks of groceries without issue. Of course people who are less-abled should be able to drive and park where there are designated handicapped spaces. No one is suggesting otherwise. But somehow in other parts of the world, in large, spread out metropolitan areas, people are able to exist with bikes as their primary source of transportation. Are you suggesting Americans are too weak or lazy to do the same?

And in terms of affording to live close to where they work - the same people who oppose bike lanes also oppose new housing, forcing out into the hinterlands. Can't have it both ways. [/quote]

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