Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07.

• Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are you in the US? I’ve literally never seen a delivery driver on a bike, except for that action movie about bike couriers in NYC.

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  • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, I’m in the Netherlands. Why deliver by car when a bike is faster and cheaper?

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    • greybeard@lemmy.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because it isn’t faster and cheaper in the majority of the US. The nearest Pizza place to me is about 2 miles, the nearest that actually delivers? About 4 miles. And I’m within the city limits of one of the top 20 largest cities in the US. Our population densities are on a completely different scale than the Netherlands. Not saying we have good city designs, but as it is, a bike would a terrible way to deliver food to me.

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      • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re saying that 6.5 kilometers by car would be faster than by bike in a city? In a car you’d be stuck in slow moving traffic or waiting for a traffic light like 80% of the time.

        6.5km by bike would be like 20 minutes max, depending on city and time of day it would be 30-60 minutes by car.

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      • naeap@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        4 miles (approx. 6km?) would be 3mins by bike

        Where is the problem?

        In my city in Austria like 90% of the deliveries are done by bike/e-bike
        There is even a platform/app where it's guaranteed to be delivered by bike.

        How long do you thing does it take to bike a few kilometres?

        Yeah, maybe your infrastructure isn't bike friendly, but that's a problem that can be solved.

        I just don't get the mentally of "well, it is that way and everything else can't apply here"

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    • BURN@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bike is not faster for a 20 mile delivery range

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      • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Who the fuck orders food 32 kilometers away? Who the fuck even delivers at that distance? You’d pay more for gas than for the food. Never mind that your food would be cold when it arrives.

        I live in a small city in a rural area and I have like 150+ delivery restaurants within 5 kilometers. It wouldn’t even cross my mind to order from a restaurant in the next city over (not that they would accept it), let alone one 40 minutes away.

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• Trev625@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wish we could ride bikes but here in the US there is absolutely no infrastructure for it. The closest Domino’s to me is 3 miles away. Riding a bike there would be extremely scary.

  Even if you take Google’s specified bike route through the neighborhoods you still have to go out onto the main roads at some point. First main road speed limit is 30mph where people routinely go 40-45. Second main road is 35mph where people also go 40-45. And the final stretch of “stroad” speed limit is 45mph where people go 55-60mph.

  Here you can use Google streetview and follow the route as if you were biking and see it yourself. maps.app.goo.gl/v4MnfPeZ9LuFzV8y6?g_st=ac (Don’t worry, I’m not doxxing myself)

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  • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m just shocked not just at the lack of proper infrastructure but also at how badly maintained and decrepit everything looks. If you showed me these pictures and told me this was somewhere in a former soviet state in eastern Europe I would have believed you.

    You can take a look around my nearest Domino’s. This one is the closest to my place (not doxing myself either here). There is no dedicated cycling infrastructure here as this is in a 30 kilometer zone near a shopping center and a school (max speed ~ 18mph) so there’s lots of speedbumps the road is fairly narrow to encourage driving at low speed. If you move out of the 30 km/h zone you’ll see cycling infrastructure appear. It’s also a few hundred meters from the F35 bicycle highway.

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    • Trev625@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wow everything looks so well maintained! Guess that’s the difference when you look at taxes as doing your part for the good of everyone vs the “gubment stealin ur hard earnd cash” sentiment we have around here. Also it looks like things are just plain closer together too.

      There are some nicer places a little bit southeast of where I live but they’re even further apart because the houses are bigger, the lots they are on are bigger and that makes the neighborhood larger which makes getting anywhere pretty much require a car. Not like I could afford living over there anyway haha

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