Originally Posted by tandempower

Anyway, to say something constructive about the thread, I would say that better bus/transit in small towns and rural areas would foster LCF better. There have been times I wanted to go to a small town in a rural area with my bike, but it was difficult or impossible to do so by riding there within the time frame I had to do it. If I could have put my bike on a rack on a bus and taken the bus to the town, it would have facilitated the trip. Does that count as "car-bike balance in small towns and rural areas?'