Cold is not an issue if you wear this cool new things I’ve invented. It’s called a jacket! 🧥
But seriously I used to ride my bike to work in a ski town in Colorado throughout the winter. The county plows the bike paths and sidewalks along with the roads. Walking and riding all winter long is no problem on skinny road bike tires. If winter makes it impossible to ride around town that is not a winter problem it’s a priorities problem.
A ski town has a vested interest in clearing snow ASAP. Businesses will pay through the nose for that foot traffic.
If I’m lucky, my neighborhood in Ohio suburbia (in a major city) might get plowed a few days after it snows. Sidewalks whenever all the snow clearing businesses are willing to settle for whatever low price my apartment complex is willing to pay this year, or maintenance with a cheap snowblower clears a foot wide path. City owned sidewalk? It wont be clear till spring.
Any person suggesting everyone swap to bikes is severely out of touch, me and my obese bretheren would never allow that. Just let me throw my grandpa on a bike to take him to the doctor 15-30 miles away, or even 2 miles away resulting in 2 deaths. Yall realize passengers that dont drive and also cant go on public transportation exist (not that we have any accessible anywhere near us lmao)
The vast majority of us live in car centric cities or towns far from any walkable areas, I have to drive 6 minutes for the nearest fastfood place, id walk an hour, bike like 15 at least? Let me just carry my weekly groceries and hope I dont fall off or get robbed on the way (not an issue in my current town but ive had friends get jumped in my last city when by themselves) How many hours of my day am I supposed to now dedidcate to travel on top of everything else, my hour in the car would become 3-4 hours on a bike.
Sounds like your city has different, in my opinion unfortunate, priorities. You could change that. It’s pretty cool having a city council that matches priorities with you. I’ve also lived in a number of small towns (~6000 pop.) that plow sidewalks and rec paths along with the roads. Being able to walk around town makes it super easy to go out and do winter activities or just pop down to a restaurant and pick up some food, or get to work without sliding everywhere.
Quick edit: My anecdote isn’t about riding around a single town or city, it’s riding the 7-14 miles between multiple cities at my pleasure or more often to commute to work at a grocery store.
You are oversimplifying how these things evolve, it can take decades to get the majority of people on your side to drive change and right now I’m more concerned about not getting deported. Also I’m nearly certain that people never change their minds, it’s just that the people that disagree with you die or move away.
These things are pretty simple, two people talking. It takes a small amount of community interest not a big legal challenge or tons of petitioning. From my experience big cities are different but in small municipalities it is basically sharing a comment but you’ll have to look up your specifics.
Someone standing up and saying, “Hey, it’d be really cool if we were able to plow the sidewalks and paths so we can walk around the city when it snows.” can plant ideas. Nothing ever gets done in a day and it probably won’t be within the next 2 years but getting the ball moving now is the best way to see change in a decade.
And on the not getting deported thing, get outside and talk to people like… It’s cliche as fuck but get to know your neighbors. Walk your pet rock if it’s awkward to hang out without something to do. Say hi to people, compliment their work and expression, ask them about themselves. Then like go your separate ways, maybe you’ll see them again maybe not. But doing that over and over helps you meet people. That’s the start of your network and eventually your resistance. It’s how you build community and community is how we keep us safe, not letting our fear rule us and telling strangers on the Internet to die. It’s having trust in the goodness of others and that means showing goodness to others.
But like you do you mate, the Internet is here for you to share your anger, pretty sure that what it was designed for, I could be wrong.
My representative voted to fund ice, I’d sooner move than deal with the idiocy by me. If things keep going the way they are, I’ll likely be federally sponsored to leave if you catch my drift.
Cold is not an issue if you wear this cool new things I’ve invented. It’s called a jacket! 🧥
But seriously I used to ride my bike to work in a ski town in Colorado throughout the winter. The county plows the bike paths and sidewalks along with the roads. Walking and riding all winter long is no problem on skinny road bike tires. If winter makes it impossible to ride around town that is not a winter problem it’s a priorities problem.
A ski town has a vested interest in clearing snow ASAP. Businesses will pay through the nose for that foot traffic.
If I’m lucky, my neighborhood in Ohio suburbia (in a major city) might get plowed a few days after it snows. Sidewalks whenever all the snow clearing businesses are willing to settle for whatever low price my apartment complex is willing to pay this year, or maintenance with a cheap snowblower clears a foot wide path. City owned sidewalk? It wont be clear till spring.
Any person suggesting everyone swap to bikes is severely out of touch, me and my obese bretheren would never allow that. Just let me throw my grandpa on a bike to take him to the doctor 15-30 miles away, or even 2 miles away resulting in 2 deaths. Yall realize passengers that dont drive and also cant go on public transportation exist (not that we have any accessible anywhere near us lmao)
The vast majority of us live in car centric cities or towns far from any walkable areas, I have to drive 6 minutes for the nearest fastfood place, id walk an hour, bike like 15 at least? Let me just carry my weekly groceries and hope I dont fall off or get robbed on the way (not an issue in my current town but ive had friends get jumped in my last city when by themselves) How many hours of my day am I supposed to now dedidcate to travel on top of everything else, my hour in the car would become 3-4 hours on a bike.
The people that push bikes hella hard are equivalent to trump supporters, so far left they spin around and run to the right
Sounds like your city has different, in my opinion unfortunate, priorities. You could change that. It’s pretty cool having a city council that matches priorities with you. I’ve also lived in a number of small towns (~6000 pop.) that plow sidewalks and rec paths along with the roads. Being able to walk around town makes it super easy to go out and do winter activities or just pop down to a restaurant and pick up some food, or get to work without sliding everywhere.
Quick edit: My anecdote isn’t about riding around a single town or city, it’s riding the 7-14 miles between multiple cities at my pleasure or more often to commute to work at a grocery store.
You are oversimplifying how these things evolve, it can take decades to get the majority of people on your side to drive change and right now I’m more concerned about not getting deported. Also I’m nearly certain that people never change their minds, it’s just that the people that disagree with you die or move away.
These things are pretty simple, two people talking. It takes a small amount of community interest not a big legal challenge or tons of petitioning. From my experience big cities are different but in small municipalities it is basically sharing a comment but you’ll have to look up your specifics.
Someone standing up and saying, “Hey, it’d be really cool if we were able to plow the sidewalks and paths so we can walk around the city when it snows.” can plant ideas. Nothing ever gets done in a day and it probably won’t be within the next 2 years but getting the ball moving now is the best way to see change in a decade.
And on the not getting deported thing, get outside and talk to people like… It’s cliche as fuck but get to know your neighbors. Walk your pet rock if it’s awkward to hang out without something to do. Say hi to people, compliment their work and expression, ask them about themselves. Then like go your separate ways, maybe you’ll see them again maybe not. But doing that over and over helps you meet people. That’s the start of your network and eventually your resistance. It’s how you build community and community is how we keep us safe, not letting our fear rule us and telling strangers on the Internet to die. It’s having trust in the goodness of others and that means showing goodness to others.
But like you do you mate, the Internet is here for you to share your anger, pretty sure that what it was designed for, I could be wrong.
My representative voted to fund ice, I’d sooner move than deal with the idiocy by me. If things keep going the way they are, I’ll likely be federally sponsored to leave if you catch my drift.