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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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Low cost and exercise are two of the benefits but it wouldn't be feasible to ride a bike if it took 2 hours of sitting in traffic every day while cars passed you. It takes longer to ride a bike than it does to drive a car and having to wait in traffic with the cars would make it worlds worse and then you would have fewer people who would ride their bikes in on an average day, which means more cars on the roads and more traffic congestion.