Nearly everything you wrote is incorrect. No one is going to make you bike if you don't want to, but repeating fossil fuel talking points is not the way forward.
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Interesting that you assume saying bicycles don't work for everyone means I want fossil fuels. I mean, I even said bicycles are great and need more support. 🤷♂️
No, I said you are repeating their talking points. Cars don't work for many people either- those with impaired vision or other disabilities; cars cost a lot of money, are expensive to operate, insure and maintain. But there isn't a chorus of "cars don't work for everyone" due to motornormativity.
Cars don't work for everyone and I never said they did. My only argument was that the OP is inaccurate. Bicycles do not solve a wide range of complex problems, they solve a single problem for a limited number of people. For that problem and those people, they're a good solution.
what, because cargo bikes haven't been invented? E-bikes? Bikes for tall people, short people, heavy people? Good gravy man, electric cargo bikes have been around for years now. Studies show that most trips are under five miles. Bikes work for many more people in more situations than you think.
Bikes for slightly tall and slightly short and slightly heavy people exist. I know, I've tried to find a bicycle I could ride. My best bet was a very expensive custom bike maker who could not guarantee I could actually ride it because I'm very tall and very heavy. And then I became disabled.
And studies probably show most trips are under five miles because most people live in cities. I don't. My minimum trip is ten miles one way. So please show me the bike that my tall, fat, disabled self can ride for 20 miles, or maybe accept that it's true that bicycles are not the universal solution.
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