stepan[image] Autoless Autumn / Walking Wednesdays : spread the word!
It’d be great here but I fear it won’t get much traction 'cause it’s usually well below 0 by late October. People here don’t like cold :(
Skill issue.
If Yellowknife can figure it out, so can your Southern city.
Yellowknife is actually just 1 degree colder in the winter than where I live. There are colder cities in the arctic, though…
But yes, people need to toughen up.
Dress warm?
Ironically, that’s not helpful with biking, I bike year round and keep warm. Works okay for walking and such, though.
I bike year round and yes it does, but you need to wear the right stuff which includes a water/windproof outer layer (otherwise, the wind pushes the cold right through your barriers, just like it would on a mountain).
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆RIP everyone living outside of a city.
Rip me working In a different city.
Same here but when I’m home I try and walk to places that are close
Across most high-income countries – across Western Europe, the Americas, Australia, Japan, and the Middle East – more than 80% of the population lives in urban areas.
Fuck 20% of people, amirite?
No, the less than 20% of people who are forced to use a car sometimes are irrelevant to this discussion.
Why wait? Start now!
SuiXi3DThe heat index today in Austin was 111.
Stay hydrated and maybe get an ebike lol. When it gets that hot I often skip using my regular bike in favor of my ebike, the wind helps a lot especially when you aren't putting out a ton of effort.
Why these months? Seems like a troll post.
It gets super hot in the summer where I live so people don’t walk outside during the summer
Either this is something that is possible for you in which case you live in a well-designed city and are probably already used to making most of your trips using means other than cars. Or else this is not possible and that’s probably the fault of your poorly designed city for not prioritizing other modes of transport.
Either way, this is a stupid idea.
The nearest public transit that gets anywhere near my workplace has its closest stop 35 minutes away.
Work is 37 minutes away, with general traffic.
So I can drive ALMOST the whole damn way to take public transit, or I can just drive to work.
Public transit does NOT exist for some people. Stop forcing it, because we sure as shit can’t count on votes to make it happen. I’ve been trying since my 20s.