I live in Chicago and commute by bike 52 weeks a year. I do that because it’s faster than driving or taking terrible public transit, not because I’m trying to be “green” or because I think anyone else should. Leaving home, biking 20 minutes to work, and taking a shower once I get there is faster, easier, and cheaper than driving or trying to fit onto a rush hour train or bus. When I’m biking, I stop at red lights and stay in a bike lane the whole way, so I’m not in the way of cars.
Shouldn’t we conservatives be more concerned with letting people have the freedom to do what they want, rather than saying that all bikers are evil because some of them don’t know how to ride? Most of the people on this thread sounds like they want the nanny state to prevent people from having the freedom to bike, rather than just cracking down on those who break the law.
My comment was:
“500,000 Americans commute by bicycle.”
“For a while, in nice weather.
Not 52 weeks a year!”
I never implied that all bikers are evil. I was questioning the stats, because I thought they were pretty high. I never said I don’t want people to have the freedom to commute how they like. I don’t know how you got those assumptions from my quick, pithy little post.