These people obviously hate our freedom:
“This is one of the busiest junctions in Utrecht, a city with a population of 300,000,” writes markenlei on YouTube. “No less than 18,000 bicycles and 2,500 buses pass here every day.” Look at that marvelous flat city. But despite local hills, Seattle could really use segregated bike lanes like this—i.e., not sharrows that appear for a block, disappear for a few blocks, and then reappear directly into someone’s car door. (Via AmericaBlog.)
slog. seriously. i tried to reset my password like 100 times. what am i doing wrong?
@46- Why don’t your kids take the bus home?
Also, I can’t figure out your time line? Are you leaving work at 5:30 and getting home by six with all those stops? Cause that’s unbelievable.
Ah, and your comment @50? Priceless.
You get up at 5:00am to go running but arrange your life so you spend rush hour puttering around in a car? You’re not lazy, just silly.
“Why don’t your kids take the bus home?”
At 6 and 8 yrs old? You don;t have kids do you.
“so you spend rush hour puttering around in a car”
The car takes 20-30 minutes home from downtown to Ballard. Bus = 45 minimum (if it shows up), bike 1 hr and that’s directly home, not getting the kids first. getting kids by bus would probably take 1-2hrs with transfers and waits. By bike? No fucking way!
“Are you leaving work at 5:30 and getting home by six with all those stops? Cause that’s unbelievable. “
Sometimes 6:15pm but yes, from downtown to Ballard with pickups, average 30 mins. Less when my wife does it but she works in Elliot Bay. THen we have time for a home cooked meal, proper sit down, family dinner, homework, bath and bed. No way I’m going to give up my time every night to ride a fucking tricycle or take the bus. Traffic in Seattle is the easiest of any of the half dozen cities I lived in the past 15 years.
“You get up at 5:00am to go running but arrange your life so you spend rush hour puttering around in a car? You’re not lazy, just silly.”
Why silly? At my home desk by 6am to work for an hour with east coast clients, kids get up, family breakfast, then off to school and work in the comfy, dry, warm safe car.