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- From: shenry@cs.rice.edu (Sam Henry)
- Subject: Re: Cars and suburbs
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- Organization: Rice University, Houston
- References: <21JAN199323271566@pearl.tufts.edu> <1993Jan22.083941.13852@truffula.sj.ca.us> <1993Jan22.181151.6670@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:16:11 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.181151.6670@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- rcanders@nyx.cs.du.edu (Rod Anderson) writes:
-
- >... [get to work by bicycle] ONLY if you live were it is warm year
- >round.
-
- Not true. It is not that diffcult to stay warm and ride. You are
- generating a considerable amount of heat with the exercise. Just trap
- it next to your body.
-
- >If the streets are snow packed and slippery it is difficult to ride.
-
- It is also difficult and dangerous to drive a car. And cold doesn't
- necessarily mean snow and ice.
-
- >And what about those who are over 60. Not all of them are
- >comfortable rideing bicycles.
-
- I promise, if you start now, you will be comfortable doing it well
- past 60, and have the health and stamina to enjoy a lot of things past
- age 60 that you wouldn't otherwise be able to.
-
- Where do you get this blather about age 60?
-
- >Bicyclig is a option only for those who are healthy and active.
-
- Healthy and active is an option of those who bicycle.
-
- >Bicycling on ice is only for the young and foolish.
-
- And for whom is autoing on ice?
-
- >Just because bicycling works for you does not mean that it is the solution
- >for all of the country.
-
- It is a viable solution for more of the country than many want to
- admit because we have such an auto-addicted society. Mass transit and
- rail are more salubrious solutions than most want to take up because
- somewhere in the Bill of Rights the free use of autos is protected as
- a natural right.
-
-
-
- --
- sam henry <shenry@rice.edu>
- Wanna ride?
-