Originally Posted by closetbiker
I have to admit, I started riding to work because the transit system was exstreamly poor. It was only after riding in for a little while that I discovered riding the bike made me feel like a kid again. From then on, I was hooked.
So I guess that poor transit was an incentive that got me on a bike.
Could other incentives help others find the enjoy cycling?
Poor transit did not get me on the bike. In fact, poor transit made me move to another city where there was good transit. Today, my trip used to involve riding five miles to the rail station and now I only travel 10 blocks.
What keeps me using the bike is good transit. The lightrail I take during the week days makes me use the system on the weekends with my bicycle. Furtunately, more people don't think like me or the trains would be full of cyclists.