Comments on: Riding is faster than driving http://www.wisemandarine.com/riding-is-faster-than-driving/ none the wiser Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:47:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Twenty thousand miles on the meter and counting « Ecojustice08’s Weblog http://www.wisemandarine.com/riding-is-faster-than-driving/#comment-9138 Twenty thousand miles on the meter and counting « Ecojustice08’s Weblog Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:39:18 +0000 http://www.wisemandarine.com/riding-is-faster-than-driving/#comment-9138 [...] if you think you cannot commute by bike because it’s too slow and you do not have the time, think twice. I think the bicycle is the coolest invention of the twentieth century. That and semi-conductors. [...] […] if you think you cannot commute by bike because it’s too slow and you do not have the time, think twice. I think the bicycle is the coolest invention of the twentieth century. That and semi-conductors. […]

]]> By: mandarine » Blog Archive » Why cook and not grow? http://www.wisemandarine.com/riding-is-faster-than-driving/#comment-8743 mandarine » Blog Archive » Why cook and not grow? Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:50:47 +0000 http://www.wisemandarine.com/riding-is-faster-than-driving/#comment-8743 [...] we can show that the average speed of a car is not much higher than that of a bicycle if we count the time one works to pay for the car, we can show that the time one works to pay for food is not much shorter than the time it would [...] […] we can show that the average speed of a car is not much higher than that of a bicycle if we count the time one works to pay for the car, we can show that the time one works to pay for food is not much shorter than the time it would […]

]]> By: mandarine http://www.wisemandarine.com/riding-is-faster-than-driving/#comment-488 mandarine Fri, 11 May 2007 06:19:07 +0000 http://www.wisemandarine.com/riding-is-faster-than-driving/#comment-488 My traffic-rule-following tendency is somewhere over 105% as a driver, and probably subzero on a bicycle (maybe that's why I love riding so much). And you are right, if we take the gym time (and associated cost, therefore extra working time) off the bicycle data, it might reach an average speed of 30 km/h. And for people who do not exercise at all, we'd have to take into account diet costs, health problems, and whole years of lost life into the data -- I'd rather not try to figure this out. My traffic-rule-following tendency is somewhere over 105% as a driver, and probably subzero on a bicycle (maybe that’s why I love riding so much).

And you are right, if we take the gym time (and associated cost, therefore extra working time) off the bicycle data, it might reach an average speed of 30 km/h. And for people who do not exercise at all, we’d have to take into account diet costs, health problems, and whole years of lost life into the data — I’d rather not try to figure this out.

]]> By: Emily http://www.wisemandarine.com/riding-is-faster-than-driving/#comment-487 Emily Thu, 10 May 2007 22:40:52 +0000 http://www.wisemandarine.com/riding-is-faster-than-driving/#comment-487 And don't forget, if you drive a car to and from work every day, rather than riding a bike, you have to add time to your schedule for working out, if you want to keep in shape. A while back I heard on the radio about a little experiment done in NYC: four people left from the same place with the same destination: one drove; one took the subway; one took a bus; and one walked. The walker got there first. I imagine the biker might have beat the walker (depending on the biker's traffic-rule-following tendencies). And don’t forget, if you drive a car to and from work every day, rather than riding a bike, you have to add time to your schedule for working out, if you want to keep in shape. A while back I heard on the radio about a little experiment done in NYC: four people left from the same place with the same destination: one drove; one took the subway; one took a bus; and one walked. The walker got there first. I imagine the biker might have beat the walker (depending on the biker’s traffic-rule-following tendencies).

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