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Originally Posted by GreenTeaFrapp
I thought the benefit of biking was the low cost and the exercise?
Why should one vehicle on the road be given preferential treatment? By your logic, heavy traffic negates the benefits of driving. So maybe drivers should just do whatever the hell they want to, such as driving on sidewalks, if they are in heavy traffic.
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Yes, those are benefits, but if you start adding time to the already long commute, the likelihood of people biking to work is a lot less. I used to bike to work in Edmonton. Normally the drive was 30 minutes with half that time sitting idle. Biking and jumping the queue took me 35 minutes. If I didn't pass any cars, my time would be approaching 45-50 minutes.
Cities promote transit and biking to remove cars off the road and lessen the traffic. If the cons of biking start to outweigh the positives, then more people will rather hop in the car.