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Cycling distance and walking distance are the same thing. With walking at least you don't arrive covered in a thin but stinking film of sweat. Not to mention that if it is in the slightest bit rainy or breezy then cycling is a nightmare method of transport. Impossible for many people with disabilities too, and a decent bike costs more than a decent used car too so hardly for the poor. It is a hobby for people who like cycling, nothing more.

The things you just said... are completely false.

I bought my bike for $100. It's a nice city bike with a basket and good breaks, and I have zero need for anything fancier than that (you don't use a mountain bike for city biking). And you don't sweat when biking unless you really go fast and push it (same as walking fast or jogging to work), or have to go up hills. And considering how much faster it is than walking, if you leave in good time you have plenty of time to freshen up before work.

You are seriously sheltered if you think one can get a cheap car for that much, and live in a city - where you have to pay for things like parking anywhere you go.

"With walking at least you don't arrive covered in a thin but stinking film of sweat."

You've obviously never lived anywhere that gets below 80 degrees. What is this utopia you live in so I can move there?

1) Reasonable walking distance is about five kilometers, if you don't mind an hour to work each way. Reasonable cycling distance is between three and five times that for the same time commitment.

2) If you're in decent shape, and give yourself a reasonable timeframe to arrive, you won't be sweaty and stinky from biking to work unless it's hot as the devil's taint out. If you're out of shape, have to run because you fucked up and didn't give yourself enough time, or it's hot as the devil's taint out, you're going to be sweaty and stinky from walking, too.

3) People who are disabled in a manner that prevents biking to work are generally disabled in a manner that prevents walking to work.

4) A serviceable bike costs between $25 and $150, depending on whether you're lucky with trawling garage sales or have to buy from a store, and what you're looking for specifically. You can't get a car for $25-$150. You can't even replace your car's tires for that much, and that doesn't even get into ongoing costs like gas, oil, wiper fluid, and so on. It's also much easier to do bike maintenance for yourself than to do car maintenance for yourself.

Higher-end bikes can cost as much as a used car, sure, but if you're just biking to work, you're not going to be buying a fucking precision race bike or a track bike, you're going to be buying something cheap and maybe sticking a basket on it to carry shit in.

I bike to work and no one has EVER said anything about my scent? I do change shirts when I get to work because I can't wear sleeveless things at work and biking in sleeves makes me 10x hotter.

I bike to work because parking is $60/month with NO GUARANTEED PARKING SPOT. I could show up to work and have nowhere to park because there are more employees than spots, and despite being a hospital, the city bowed under neighbourhood pressure to not turn our parking lot into a parking tower even by one level.

I'd kill for a proper bike lane. We have signs that say 'share the road', but even though I treat myself as a car and follow road rules, I've had people run stop signs and almost hit me or ignore that I had the right of way and almost hit me.

Your hospital's neighborhood sounds dumb. Parking garages are so much more efficient than lots. :/ I don't even think they look that bad. You can make them look nice on the outside like any other building.

I could park at the building I work at for $30/month with a guaranteed spot (I'd have to get on a waiting list to get in) but I don't want to pay that much, so I park in a lot that's free to employees but it's not a guaranteed spot. Of course I've only had trouble finding a spot maybe twice. It's usually feasible.

Sadly I can't afford to live close enough to my job to not drive, the bus doesn't go out to where I live either (and would be more expensive than using my car), and I don't own a bike and would be a little nervous about storing one at my apartment - I live on a second story, don't want to haul it up and down the stairs and don't have a place to store it inside.

I really just want to move downtown so I can walk to work lol.

I also wish there were more bike lanes. I hate driving behind bikes and not being able to get around them - slows me down immensely - and/or feeling like I'm going to hit them. And I get that bikes aren't supposed to use sidewalks either...

It's super dumb. It's a super affluent area so they're afraid of pissing off the homeowners. Like, come on! You live next to a six story hospital! Is one extra story on the parking lot going to block your view of what exactly? The hospital?

But then they bitch that there's no visitor parking either. Yeah because we LITERALLY have nowhere to expand to but upwards AND YOU WON'T LET US!

I'm lucky that I was able to find a cheap-ish place close enough to my work so I can bike (walk in winter). I used to have to drive 45 minutes/way and it was brutal on gas and parking fees.

I also wish there were more bike lanes. I hate driving behind bikes and not being able to get around them - slows me down immensely - and/or feeling like I'm going to hit them. And I get that bikes aren't supposed to use sidewalks either...

I know. :/ I feel bad, like I'm holding up cars even though I'm not really. But then in the parts where I do bike on the sidewalk (because there's no bike lane and no 'share the road' space) I get stuck behind pedestrians who ignore my "Excuse me!"s when I'm trying to scoot past.

Augh that's dumb. People can be so dumb and short-sighted about neighborhood policies! Let me guess, they get bitchy when people park in front of their houses to visit sick friends/family members?

Pedestrians ignoring bikes behind them seems not only rude but stupid.

LMAO damn you are GOOD!!!!

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I got sweaty all the time back when I walked to work. If it's hot and humid enough, you'll get sweaty just walking across the street (like, say, from the parking garage to your work building).

this is just a really dumb comment

I don't even like sharing the road with bikes, and I wish public transit were better so people could get around with that and walking, and I don't think biking is super safe for bikers or for the drivers who have to deal with them. But this is still a really dumb comment. At least some people are trying to save money and not pour more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. And you're incorrect about most of what you're saying. like lol what cycling and walking distance the same? people don't sweat when they walk long distances? okay

a decent bike costs more than a decent used car too so hardly for the poor.

Lolwat.

I mean, you were doing pretty well of convincing me you weren't trolling till you got there. Well, that and the whole disability thing. *has a disability that sometimes prevents from driving, but not biking--amazingly, disability affects different people in different ways!*

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