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Oxford Professor: Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities (theconversation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I used to cycle 7 km to work, but now, after moving to suburban village, there is no way to go other way than car. Especially with small kid. Unless you are fit enough to do 25 km every day by bike and risk your life (and potentially kid's) on the street between cars. So no, there is not realistic to "fuck cars". I am speaking from European perspective, probably US has the car things much more fucked up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I don't think you realise how much you've been fucked by car. I presume you move out to the suburb not because the city council decided to exile you and never let you stay in the city, you move out because you have a car and can drive 20+km toward your destination, which then mean everything is so out of your way you have to use car to do everything. So no, you're the one that got fucked by motonormativity and yell "cum inside", you don't get to then deny everyone a better solution.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

All I need now is the knowledge, sense of balance, and confidence to ride a bicycle

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

The more you ride, the better you get. Try include cycling into your exercise, and within a year you should be better with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

If you're in need of some inspiration; Tom Scott on YouTube made a video of himself learning how to ride a bike. Seeing someone else learn something can be useful, and there's a lot of little things in the video one can pick up on to avoid common mistakes.

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