One of my friends did a personal study on his costs at uni and found it was more cost effective to drive his car (this was in the early 2000’s) than it was to ride his bike to uni everyday than buy the food required to fuel the 50km round trip.
I think public transport at the time was a real screw around for him because his area was poorly serviced and the nearest train station was super dodgy
Yeah I live in a city with decent public transportation, but unfortunately my neighborhood is the one that’s poorly serviced, it’d take me two hours and multiple changes to get to work, it takes me 35 minutes by car and 20 by motorbike.
Of course I take the latter as often as possible, it’s just better, even on fuel consumption.
I’d like to bicycle to work like I did to my previous job, but here it’s just not an option, it’d take over one hour, I’d get there drenched in sweat, and risk my life multiple times.
I think food to pedal the bike cost money.
And don’t even get me started on all the healthcare the meat bag driving it needs.
Edmonton is in Canada, so that is covered 👍
Just don’t get your teeth knocked out in the crash
Teeth? Do you mean Luxury Bones™?
Luxury Bones Enamel Edition Pro Max
Probably less than non-cyclists due to better health, so a net negative cost.
I guess when you have fancy pants, you go on adventures.
Also the extra exercise will prolong your life and you’ll have to pay even more.
Longer life means you have to buy more food. That will make a hilarious ad campaign for cars - save money, live shorter
Live fat, die young
Damn, I miss their compilations
Its more the cocaine needed to ride long distance that costs the money.
That’s why I use an electric self driving bike
One of my friends did a personal study on his costs at uni and found it was more cost effective to drive his car (this was in the early 2000’s) than it was to ride his bike to uni everyday than buy the food required to fuel the 50km round trip.
Hope he wasn’t majoring in anything like math or biology.
Well he certainly wasn’t majoring in wilful ignorance so that probably works in his favour.
So drive and starve was the conclusion? Was this Trump U?
No it was the increase in petrol cost was less when he drove than his increase in food cost when he rode, he ate fine when he drove
25km each way is, best case scenario, 1h per trip, in that case if public transport is not an option, yeah, I’d take the car
I think public transport at the time was a real screw around for him because his area was poorly serviced and the nearest train station was super dodgy
Yeah I live in a city with decent public transportation, but unfortunately my neighborhood is the one that’s poorly serviced, it’d take me two hours and multiple changes to get to work, it takes me 35 minutes by car and 20 by motorbike.
Of course I take the latter as often as possible, it’s just better, even on fuel consumption.
I’d like to bicycle to work like I did to my previous job, but here it’s just not an option, it’d take over one hour, I’d get there drenched in sweat, and risk my life multiple times.