Originally Posted by
Machka
You can be car free or car light without a cargo bicycle or trailer quite easily. I did it for 6 years ... it never even occurred to me to get those things.
And I was also car free without any particular cycling infrastructure, or any particular political involvement. I was certainly not car free because of any political statement or involvement ... politics had nothing to do with my being car f
I also got along without a trailer, and I used mytouring bike to carry stuff, but it is a lot easier with a trailer.
Fifty years ago I didn't think much about cycling infrastructure. I don' know off hand how many more cars are on the road now as compared to fifty years ago but there are and the drivers are more distracted. There weren't that many drugs and electronic gadgets. Just booze.
But you live now in Australia or Tasmania, not near a large American city. Why do you want to stop us from talking about how to live car free inour country? We need an infrastructure, and that involves politics.
I looked at the P&R forum for the first time and I saw only one thread remotely related to car free living on the first page.