EDIT: I truly don’t understand how you haters imagine I’m supposed to haul allthisstuff around with a bike.
This kind of thinking is why people buy/lease 2 ton F-150s, which only ever get used as a commuter and never really see a day of “hauling goods”. Same thinking behind massive crossovers and SUVs, with piss poor gas mileage and horrible road visbility. The only time you’ll see those off-road is in a driveway 🤦♂️
People who actually NEED to “haul” stuff will own a covered bed like the one you’ve shown, or even better a panel van/box van!
There are no haters here IMO, you just come across as a troll to me personally… occasionally there’s people who want to nuke cars out of existence but they’re a minority pretty much
This community is about reducing car dependency, not removing cars as a whole, especially in rural areas where they 110% make sense. A farmer isn’t going to replace their pickup with a cargobike, or their tractor with a fietscombine or whatever. In cities where there are more efficient ways to move huge volumes of people around, cars don’t make a lot of sense, just contributing to excess noise, traffic, and smog.
The way the US was rebuilt, and continues to build today, makes it difficult to actually have any alternatives to a car. Sprawling neighborhoods make buses not ideal, wide roads make speeding possible so unsafe for cycling, the low density of these areas make them very hard to justify putting train infrastructure nearby.
I think it’s a bit shit to be forced into owning a car, with all its requirements (insurance, maintenance, gas etc) instead of having at least some options open to you (bicycle, bus, train, and car)
Well it rubs many people the wrong way when they start the article by saying “one of the best ways to improve your life: Ditch your car.” as if that’s some kind of general life advice that applies to everyone. I literally could not do my job without a car. Maybe if I lived in a city and worked in office, then yeah, but I don’t.
Well it rubs many people the wrong way when people who are clearly not the addressee of an article walk into a room stating things like, “one is a hobby and one is a form of transportation” as if that’s some kind of general life advice that applies to everyone.
Maybe if you lived in a city and worked in office
It might come as a surprise to you, but that’s the vast majority of people.
Here is some general life advice: you are not the center of the universe, nobody is coming for your car, stop feeling addressed by things that clearly aren’t about you, stop wasting other people’s time with “well that wouldn’t work for me”.
This kind of thinking is why people buy/lease 2 ton F-150s, which only ever get used as a commuter and never really see a day of “hauling goods”. Same thinking behind massive crossovers and SUVs, with piss poor gas mileage and horrible road visbility. The only time you’ll see those off-road is in a driveway 🤦♂️
People who actually NEED to “haul” stuff will own a covered bed like the one you’ve shown, or even better a panel van/box van!
There are no haters here IMO, you just come across as a troll to me personally… occasionally there’s people who want to nuke cars out of existence but they’re a minority pretty much
This community is about reducing car dependency, not removing cars as a whole, especially in rural areas where they 110% make sense. A farmer isn’t going to replace their pickup with a cargobike, or their tractor with a fietscombine or whatever. In cities where there are more efficient ways to move huge volumes of people around, cars don’t make a lot of sense, just contributing to excess noise, traffic, and smog.
The way the US was rebuilt, and continues to build today, makes it difficult to actually have any alternatives to a car. Sprawling neighborhoods make buses not ideal, wide roads make speeding possible so unsafe for cycling, the low density of these areas make them very hard to justify putting train infrastructure nearby.
I think it’s a bit shit to be forced into owning a car, with all its requirements (insurance, maintenance, gas etc) instead of having at least some options open to you (bicycle, bus, train, and car)
Well it rubs many people the wrong way when they start the article by saying “one of the best ways to improve your life: Ditch your car.” as if that’s some kind of general life advice that applies to everyone. I literally could not do my job without a car. Maybe if I lived in a city and worked in office, then yeah, but I don’t.
Well it rubs many people the wrong way when people who are clearly not the addressee of an article walk into a room stating things like, “one is a hobby and one is a form of transportation” as if that’s some kind of general life advice that applies to everyone.
It might come as a surprise to you, but that’s the vast majority of people.
Here is some general life advice: you are not the center of the universe, nobody is coming for your car, stop feeling addressed by things that clearly aren’t about you, stop wasting other people’s time with “well that wouldn’t work for me”.