Comment on Anon likes bikes
Aabbcc@lemm.ee 5 months agoWear a winter jacket
This reads like someone who doesn’t live somewhere that it gets cold
it is a self report you don’t live anywhere meaningful with anything fun around you
What a weird thing to criticize someone for
JayDee@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Living on the border with Canada, I tell you now that I bike during the winter. It is in fact as simple as wearing the right layers. Even some of the coldest regions in the world have bike commuting.
I don’t think the second part is a criticism. It’s pointing out that you live in a place who’s infrastructure has been completely fucked by car-centrism. Were it designed with walking, biking, or even just public transit of any kind as a priority, the distance between points would actually be short (public transit benefits from shorter distance between stops by having shorter routes Which cuts fuel and maintenance costs).
In order for cities to have changes in their structure, mixed-use zoning needs to be allowed, along with various other reforms to current infrastructure law - laws which disinsentivise driving (car-centric people label it as ‘punishment’ when it’s more just revokal of massive amounts of privilege. It takes several decades, but overtime city footprints would shrink and become much more walkable - and safer - and more quiet.
Mac@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Except that youre blaming the victim of car-centric city designs. Good one.
JayDee@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Not sure what you’re meaning by “… blaming the victims of car-centric city designs.” Is this going back to the comment before saying it’s a “weird thing to criticise someone for.”
Since you didn’t quote a portion of my comment, I have no idea which portion you are saying is blaming people for car-centric city design.
Mac@mander.xyz 5 months ago
“You should ride bikes, bro”
“It sucks”
“Well yeah, your infrastructure is designed for cars!”
That about sum it up?