Originally Posted by
BooksandBikes
Perhaps!
Southern culture for the most part associates bicycling commuting with poverty. We have a train system. Bus system. 90% of the people I've met have never ridden the bus or taken the train claiming it is not efficient, filthy, gross, crime ridden and for the poor and minorities. So the OP's moron may be coming from a place of snarky derisiveness. Might think the OP is downtrodden....or a drunk.
As far as San Antonio, Austin, and Houston...they ain't wrong. Wanting off the bus system because bus #1 being consistently late, causing the layover for bus#2 to be 50-90 minutes, which then takes 30 minutes to go 5 miles is how I got into bike commuting. Also the bus service is much more robust in poorer neighborhoods(which makes perfect sense, but reinforces the minority thing).