Comment 69741

By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted September 16, 2011 at 11:42:17 in reply to Comment 69712

As classist as it is, it's hard to argue with the fact here - there are people who choose to bike, and people who ride a bike because their life is in too much of a mess to manage a car (thank goodness).

The latter do a lot for ruining the reputation of cycling, and it's sad... after all, it exacerbates the usual chicken-and-egg problems with cycling.

If cycling has a reputation of being the activity of scofflaw vagrants, then only scofflaw vagrants will cycle. The only way to fix that reputation is if scofflaw vagrants become a teeny-tiny minority of cyclists. And that only happens if cycling becomes seen as a legitimate option by urban commuters... which won't happen when a massive proportion of the cyclists they see downtown are guys that you'd expect to see panhandling.

And I'm writing this as a guy who drops his kids off with his bike, who did the bike-rack-on-bus thing to get to work.

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