re: #49 Unabogie

I’m kind of old but I started commuting to work by bike at 50. And after I did that, I realized how miserable it is to drive every day and how fun it is to commute by bike. I was biking 22 miles a day and feeling great. Now that I am WFH I just try to run errands by bike, but it’s still better than any other mode of transportation if you’re within 5 miles.

And I grant that not everyone has the strength and mobility to do this but I think most people can.

What’s lacking is just safe infrastructure. If you visit a city with protected bike lanes you see a tipping point where so many people are out riding that it becomes the safer and faster way to get around. It literally seems crazy to drag a car with you to get somewhere.

I wish more Americans were open to such obvious truths. Cars suck.

Phoenix is not a city set up for biking. At least four months out of the year it’s in the 90s at the end of the work day. And for a couple of those months, the temps do not drop below the low 90s.