Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
You seem to conflate "no vehicle available" with a voluntarily choice to be car-free, as well as apparently providing some sort of evidence of the practicality of bicycle use for filling the primary transportation needs of family's without access to an available network of transportation options.
Also as already pointed out it is the OP's "paraphrasing" that implied I stated anything about the general population, and twisted it from addressing the posters on this list who appear to be overwhelmingly men without children living with them but who offer so much advice on how families can easily live car-free
I would disagree that the Census Bureau figures of American workers over 16 who have "no vehicle available" are made up solely of people who have the wherewithal to own vehicles but have voluntarily sworn them off to use bicycles instead for whatever reason you might imagine. Perhaps you believe other people wish to emulate those living simply in poverty.
How many of the working families above poverty level who have "no vehicle available" are living in dense urban communities like NYC and have access to excellent (or at least available) alternate public transportation options?
Neither I nor the Census Bureay made any inferences about whether people with no vehicle available are carfree by choice or not. Often, it's even difficult for the carfree individual to state whether it's by choice or necessity, and often it's some combination of the two.
Makikg inferences from this forum is even sillier than inferring from the census data, yet you manage to do both. Usually I find you to be quite sophisticated about statistics, but you're really letting me down here.