Raincoats exist man. Rain bubbles exist. It’s a solved problem. Snow just isn’t that hard

A glance at this thread would show you I’m right. People’s primary reasons for not switching is not wanting to bike in the rain, winter, and not wanting to be sweaty --all of which products are made to deal with.

Even kids are easily transportable with a small trailer

No, it’s spoken like someone who’s been to the numerous countries where they bike with their kids just fine.

worked a job with a dress code

A 5-7 mile commute is doable without being sweaty with the right bike.

Sounds like a problem that needs solving.

You can not ride a bike on our roads

What’s stopping you?

and the cycling community is unfriendly

“i sold my hammer because the hammer community was unfriendly”

It’s a tool first and a culture second. Choosing a tool based on culture is already poor decision making.

For whatever reason, you seem unable to see someone else’s perspectives on this subject. I’m going to chalk it up to inexperience.

I can see their perspective. I think their perspective is simply pure selfishness, desire for a small convenience over the greater overall good.

A bike that hurts your back is likely not a practical commuter upright bike.

If you can’t stand the slightest inconvenience to yourself for a better world, the world will never improve.

It’s strictly true. It’s not ablest. The overwhelming majority of those who cannot have no serious underlying reason as to why not

Bikes are not even half as hard as you think they are.

best of luck in gathering momentum for your cause.

Thankfully, there’s already significant momentum, bike lanes and transit are growing stronger.

I’m not speaking without doing. I’ve done as cold as it gets in my city, which is admittedly short of -30c, probably closer to -23c. This is about bikes, not buses. (But honestly goes for both!)

People aren’t going to like being told it. But I’m ever of the opinion that people who whine when told they’re wrong are not ever going to be the ones changing in the first place. They merely sit there, in the comfort of the car, justifying their decision by pretending the gas guzzling environment harming and dangerous vehicles are somehow justified by the small amount of lightly discomfortable weather and short bikeable rides.

You’re basically saying their time is of little to no value, and what they want to accomplish with it doesn’t matter

It’s not of little value. It’s the amount saved by driving is not worth it. For them and for others.

Ablest is when pro environment . Yeah no. It’s easy to create exceptions for the small portion of the population who is fully incapable of biking. Less car dependency will allow those who can’t drive to get around far more safely, actually leading to more mobility for people with issues like legal blindness that prevent them from driving but not prevent them from other multimodal forms of transit

Yes, it does. Don’t be a naysayer when you haven’t tried it; it isn’t as daunting as it seems

Yup. Here in Chicago we now have bike racks inside the trains so you can bring your bike into the city on the metra, as well as allowed in all trains including the colored lines outside of peak hours

Small kids doesn’t stop you from biking lmfao. It just changes what setup of bike you need to have.

the weather doesn’t allow it, or…

The only weather that would prevent it is a hurricane and you shouldn’t be driving in one of those either.

Caring about convenience over the environment and health is exactly the problem. They’ll get healthy enough.

Cars and eating meat are some of the largest polluters on the planet, and driven entirely by consumers. The commerical fishing industry exists because you buy the fish. Do not mistake that every individual is part of the problem and we all need to work together to improve reality

Even if there was passenger train service on the existing lines here, a lot of people would need a vehicle to get to the station

BIKE. BIKE TO THE TRAIN STATION

Bikes combined with public transit usually cut down those times massively. And to ask—good, or good by usa standards? Cities in Germany or japan are impressive with how fast you can get places by train.

Also-- people being unwilling to trade a bit of convenience in exchange for a better world is a major part of the problem. I got off my car and started biking for everything, and it was easy. More people could easily do the same. Combined with trains, I can go very far.