“How many people, right at this moment, are stuck in traffic on their way to ride a stationary bicycle in a health club?”
That’s the question Congressman Earl Blumenauer asked at this Brookings Institution discussion: Cities, Bicycles, and the Future of Getting Around.
Why, indeed, would people endure stifling traffic just to hop on another form of transportation that goes nowhere? How is this not similar to walking around outside without a coat while complaining of the chill?
What are people thinking? Children can’t get to school on their own, while childhood obesity skyrockets. Yet the evident solution to bicyclists, as simple as putting on the sweater, is simply to ride to school. Yet few do.
Responses from David Byrne and Janette Sadik-Kahn here. (Thanks to Brent Toderian.)
True story: I once saw a fight break out in a parking lot over who got the space closer to the door. The door of the health club.
i often attend on healthclub meetings to update myself about health news”,~