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800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
There's a flight leaving today....enjoy your Dutch taxes an 10% permanent unemployment.
Yeah if only America didn't have 10% unemployment and high taxes for everyone except the super rich and large sized corporations
Actually a helmet is probably more useful in that sort of situation, in which you are far more likely to get in a low speed, bike to bike crash, than you are to get hit by a car.
The odds of a helmet mattering in a bike to car accident are low. I still wear them, but in bike to bike it's a lot more likely to matter.
The #1 thing preventing this type of commuting in the us is car entitlement. We need to make driving in cities really, really hard. Of course, this is restating what we all know.
Why? Does Seattle not have hills and lots of rain? I lived in holland and yes, i rode bikes every day. Why? No fucking hills and because the cities are 1000+ years old, they are compact, built, as you may know, before cars came.
See the difference with Seattle now moron?
Seriously, comparing 1000 yr old cities with Seattle?
Now look at how Seattle has hills and rain and cold weather and people still ride bikes by the thousands. The hills and weather are an excuse for people who don't ride bikes, it doesn't actually hold anyone back from riding.
I live and work in Seattle and ride my bike everywhere. There are many of us who do the same. Yeah there are hills, yeah there's rain, but bikes are so much more fun than cars and so much cheaper to operate, that the topography and weather stops being much of an inconvenience as soon as you get in fairly decent shape and find a good jacket.
The only things that really keep Fucking Idiot and his peers from biking are sheer laziness and a car-sized chip on their shoulders.
To who, you?
" the topography and weather stops being much of an inconvenience"
How about with 2 kids at different schools, with after school activities, two working parents, jobs downtown, sometimes out of town, homes on the north side?
Actually, less than 5% commute by bike.
BTW, I ride a bike, when it's convenient. Maybe once or twice a week.
Well, 7 fucking hills and Italian drivers....I've never cycled when I'm there.
Minneanapolis is the #2 bike commuter city in the country, and they have much harsher weather than we do for half the year.
Guess who's #3? Seattle! With our hills and rain.
Both Portland and Seattle have jumped up the bike commuter list in the past 10 years due to better bike infrastructure - we weren't even in the top 10 ten years ago. Portland has invested more, but it's all a matter of investing in infrastructure. More infrastructure = more bikers, regardless of hills or weather.
Go to Paris on a Friday night and you will see a 30 minute train of wheeled transportation with a rolling street closer using motorcycle police at the beginning and end.
Seattle: 37 inches
Ultrecht: 32 inches
I ride my bike to/from work because I live close and there isn't much traffic in between. If I had to ride across town I would feel unsafe, and would probably bus/drive. When I lived in Sweden there were terrific bike lanes, and so everyone rode (AND we had hills and freezing conditions. Everyone thinks riding in the freezing cold is easy, but when the path is all rutted and frozen with tracks, there is a huge possibility of falling down. If there were no good bike lanes I probably would have died)
I get around everywhere in Utrecht by bike, and its just a way of life. Its surprising how quickly you get used to it. Cars are definitely not a good idea in the city centre.
Seattle: 37 inches
Ultrecht: 32 inches"
over how many days? Thanks for meaning less stats. I was in Bangkok once and saw that much rain in two days.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual
I think you just choose to be a typical suburban car owner but have a big chip on your shoulder about it.
Alternate view: Horrible city - obviously they do not allow their fat people to be seen in public! = ; )
Of course if we do build all this bike infrastructure and bike commuting only goes from 4% (Seattle) to 7% (Portland), we should ask for our money back.
I can easily afford it and parking is free. $5 a gallon? I drive from Ballard. $20 a gallon would still be more convenient and cost effective than a bus or bike.
Lazy? Well I run an hour every morning at 5am before work, does that make me lazy?
'Your choice"
Actually it wasn't dipshit, the SPS sent my kids to schools way apart. Probably why we'll go private next year but that will mean a longer drive...but no problem, car is comfy, we can enjoy NPR and a cafe latte.
NO, POOR PEOPLE WOULD FIND ANOTHER WAY TO GET AROUND WHICH IS FINE BY ME.
I live in East Ballard, my business is in Belltown......how much closer should I be? Now I could move to Queen Anne but to afford that I'd have to make some cuts at my office from the staff.
You tell me, fire the asshole who doesn't know how to make a spread sheet after 4 years of college or stay in Ballard.
Hmmmm....he rides a bike to work, maybe I should fire his ass.
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.
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.