popcorn2721
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Would be a great concept hereScooters and bicycles abound here, along with the little 1 seater cars (if you could class them as such) and 2 seater cars for the disabled. All, bicycles especially, have a range of products you can use to cart shopping and for bicycles, larger articles. LOL, I love checking out the bicycles as they are ingenious. Some fold up so they can be carried onto a train/bus or into the office and stored under your desk...some have trailers either for carting things or children (with hood and rain cover for children), some have a little seat on the handlebars for babies and toddlers and other seats for the back of the bike and older children, and then there are the huge range of baskets, panniers and saddlebags you can buy. They are not meant just for the short journeys either with quite a lot of people using them for intercity travel without the use of a train or bus as part of the journey. It is not unusual for adults to have never driven a car in their life...F was one of them until after we married.
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I love bikes myself (I still own my diamondback "hotstreak" and my mountain bike) but as far as using it for a main means of transportation, Illinois Department of Transportation would absolutely have to add a bike lane to all the main roads. The elderly fuckers and nutjobs on cell phones in this state still drive the same way..killing tonnes of motorcyclist each year. There is no way (especially after surviving nearly being ran down in my youth a few times) Ill put my kids in a wagon to be put in harms way.
Having said all that...I would vote for that bike lane and purchase a tandem in a heartbeat too.