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• bluemellophone@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Taking a vacation road trip from Florida to the Grand Canyon with three kids with only bikes also comes at quite the cost. Bikes are great, but in many practical scenarios they are slow. Not all of us live in Manhattan, or a dense city, or even a well connected and safe to traverse suburb.

  The cost is time.

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  • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is much easier to take a bike with you on a train than it is a car.

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  • DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sure there are situations where bikes aren’t suitable.

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    • candybrie@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m doing that anyway. I have a fixed work schedule and can’t be like “Eh, I have enough money, I’m just going to work 35 hours this week.” It would be amazing if I could, but I don’t know many people who have that option. So since I pretty much get the choice of working 40 hours a week or not working, I’d like to maximize my other time.

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  • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you were to say, ride a bike from Washington D.C. to Portland Oregon, they money saved on gas, maintenance, insurance, and lease payments, would amount to 3 times as many hours of work.

    This is a ridiculous example, but, frankly, saying our main mode of transit should be cars because we might want to take a long road trip once a year is absurd. It’s an outlier use case that could be addressed with other systems more effectively.

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