those who are sweaty af and miserable and the latter is why people prefer cars

but now that ebikes and electric motorcycles exist cars should basically be banned in all downtown areas

You must live somewhere with hills.

People have the wrong kind of bikes. You either need a cheap women's bike that goes 20 km/h if you try hard and 15 km/h if you go easy (you will chill!) or an Ebike if you got the cash.

Everything else is a hobby bike.

What trains are you taking that can drive on roads? I would somehow exclude streetcars from being trains but we basically don't have any of those anymore so I'll leave the statement as it is.

Bike slower if you get super sweaty.

yes?

I've eaten slices of pizza from the box while riding before lmao

You can if you're brave

and you can wash it down with a beer in a paper bag, and hardly anyone will care because you aren't in a megagram+ mass vehicle

I absolutely have while drunk as shit. One of my favorite things to do ngl

I used to eat fries a bit while biking around on campus. Holding the clamshell in one hand and grabbing the fries with the other.

I think getting ketchup and burger grease on my handlebar tape would disturb me even more than squirting it straight into my keyboard.

You can! Just gotta learn how to bike without using your hands. I see people do all sorts of dumb shit in bikes in Copenhagen

Having a bear chase you the whole distance helps

Eating 566 Nerds gummy clusters at a rate of one every 3 minutes and 30 seconds.

High speed rail, there is hands down no better way to travel 500 miles in a single trip.

And a lot of areas would be cooler without cars its crazy how much a traffic jam heats up an area when you have a bunch of cars idling

Cars:

Also require everything to be further away, increasing your time in extreme weather.

And need big asphalt roads that retain heat and make the surrounding area significantly warmer compared to either light rail, smaller roads needed for bikes and even regular train tracks

With any other non-motorized traffic participant.

My town used to have problems with this up until a decade ago (sadly most people switched to cars by now).

We have several factories here and they all had to have their own bike parking lots which used to be a sight of its own, with bikes hanging from walls and even roofs sometimes.

Drivers hated it specially during end of shift times as the streets would get a massive amount of bikes and even if there were not that many of them, folks would cycle side by side with their friends and neighbors which slowed down the car traffic anyway.

Now that most people use cars, the dedicated parking areas that were used for bikes are mostly empty or at most been converted into a couple parking spaces for cars, which gets reserved for higher ranking employees only since its limited. There are no parking lots anywhere so people park their cars on the street.

Most streets had to be converted to maximize parking space, which took even more space than the side-by-side bikers used to and slowed traffic more as well. Food trucks were banned so it doesn't take parking space. Traffic lights were all replaced by mini roundabouts (not sure what the name is in English). Between 5 and 7pm it takes several minutes to get a chance to cross a street now.

[Laughs in Dutch]