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On Thu, 04 Dec 1997 19:58:06 -0800, "Joe St. Lucas"
<jstlucas@znet.com> wrote:

.> .> Critical Mass is a movement to promote bicycling and other self-propelled
.> .> transportation
.
.> .Have you ever considerd that biking to work may be IMPRACTICAL for some of us???
.> 
.> Why? Usually because you CHOOSE to live or work where biking is
.> impractical. You can't expect to live in the suburbs and be well
.> served by transit or biking.
.
.Why not?  
.
.What I would love to see is a news article about a married couple, WITH KIDS,
.that has no car, and uses bicycles and other wonderful forms of transportation.
.You know, father biking off to sorrento valley to work, mom biking to somewhere
.else, kids riding the school bus, etc.
.All I ever see are college students or older guys trying to stay in shape by
.biking to work (whose kids are off to college), etc.
.It's simply impractical for someone with kids to shop for groceries on bikes
.with a duck trail of grade-schoolers tagging behind.
.
.What are you going to do if a kid needs a trip to the hospital, bike down?

Yes, and probably get there faster than today's car traffic.

.Wait an hour for a cab? 

Now you are lying. It doesn't take an hour to get a cab, if you live
in the city, and not on top of a mountain.

 Wait two hours for a bus?

It never takes 2 hours to get a bus, unless you live on top of a
mountain. The point is that you can choose to live where transit is
convenient. If you choose otherwise, then it is your problem, not
ours.

.To those who have a lifestyle that enables them to use self-propelled modes
.of transport, good for you, more power to you.
.Some day maybe I'll be in that group, but not now, and I will feel absolutely
.NO guilt about driving my car.

You should. You have deliberately chosen a car-dependent lifestyle.

.Joe St. Lucas, jstlucas@znet.com, http://sd.znet.com/~jstlucas
.Work is something to keep me busy between ultimate frisbee games.
.Currently researching surnames SANTOLUCA, ANZALDO

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