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I love the fact that a major brand like Trek designed and released a full out adventure bike packing bike.

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and Summer begins!

09:24 on 21/06/2026

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Manhattan (1985)

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Roads have existed for thousands of years to connect street networks in one city to street networks in another. Cars have only become mainstream IN the actual city in the last 70. Yet, nearly every country with cars as the primary form of transportation design their entire transportation network around ONLY cars.

It has created a culture that "roads are for cars" and anything else whether it is bicycles, pedestrians, even buses or motorcycles, are borrowing road surface from "normal" drivers and that it is a net detriment to drivers.

Cycling pulls competing traffic off of the roads. Bike lanes, assuming a robust cycle network and not just a shitty patch of random dangerous bike lanes, actually REDUCE traffic. This has been clearly demonstrated in cities like Minneapolis, Portland, Montreal, London, Paris, basically any city in the Netherlands, etc...

People see "Cyclist" as a type of person rather than just people choosing an alternative mode of transportation because cycle infrastructure has been so bad for so long in many cities that the only people doing it for decades were douchey graduate educated middle aged men in lycra shorts.

The fact is "normal" drivers are entitled. They don't account for the massive expense of car dependent infrastructure. They expect free/cheap plentiful parking every single place they go. Anything that slows down their personal trip is considered a blight or the entitlement of others, even if way more people use the alternative (transit) or if it is healthier and more people friendly (cycle paths or pedestrian streets). Traffic calming in neighborhoods is selfish because it stops car drivers from effectively cutting through the neighborhood.