When biking infrastructure is only seen as "recreational", it leads to design choices that make it unreliable for practical transportation use.
When biking infrastructure is only seen as "recreational", it leads to design choices that make it unreliable for practical transportation use.
Walking along when suddenly...the sidewalk ends! Where am I supposed to go? Who designed this? Why doesn't the sidewalk continue?!
"You can't pick up groceries with a bike," they said
I rode 43 miles today on my ebike:
- school drop off (w/ boy on back)
- doc appointment
- library
- lunch at dive (never again)
- pharmacy
- home
- school pick up (w/ boy)
- restaurant (w/ boy)
- band practice (w/ boy)
- home (w/ boy)
I'm kind of tired now. Fitness app says 2100 calories burned.
Car infrastructure: bridge over the creek
Pedestrian/bike infrastructure: path under the bridge that floods and gets muddy every time it rains
Tomorrow on Nextdoor: wHy ArE pEoPLe uSiNg tHe cRoSsWaLk aNd NoT tHe uNdErPaSs
This is what you get when walking and biking are seen solely as recreation, rather than critical transit.