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Old 07-14-09 | 11:42 AM
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PaulRivers
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Originally Posted by mangosalsa


Originally Posted by adlai View Post
3. there are other costs not accounted for. An obvious ones of course are the greater mobility of the car allowing you more freedom in getting to jobs


How is this "obvious"? What is this "more freedom" you are referring to? Freedom is based on perception, nothing more. What is more mobile than a bike?
What's more mobile than a bike? A car.

A car can go 3 times faster, there's more routes for cars that are inaccessible by bike (freeways, interstates), a car still goes nearly as fast in the winter as it does in the summer, and does not require changing clothes for longer rides or taking a shower at either end (some days are so hot you'll sweat standing still - a car has an air conditioner) and allows you to carry stuff without pre-planning and at the same speed you go without carrying stuff.

Now you don't get any exercise in a car, a car is rather expensive, you have more of a headache with parking in the city, and you might just enjoy biking more. But in the context of looking for a job, there's no doubt (yeah, I'm sure there's some sort of special situation kind of exception, but in general) that a car let's you travel farther to find a job than you would be able to (reasonably) by bike, and thus it's more mobile.
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