On Friday, December 6, 2019 at 5:11:36 PM UTC, Frank Krygowski wrote:

The default transportation mode is still the car (or more likely, pickup
or SUV). If motor vehicle use is not actively discouraged, that's always
going to be the case.

Do you ever wonder why people call you a fascist, Franki-boy? This is why: your constant urge to force everyone else to your way of seeing things, your constant smug, almost orgasmic, claim of moral superiority. You're not morally superior, you're just a common street corner bully, and a particularly unsophisticated street corner bully at that.

And I can't envision much discouragement of motor
vehicle use in the U.S. in the foreseeable future.

And damn right too. If people want to drive straight to hell in their SUVs, that's their choice and their right, and it is none of the business of cycle enthusiasts to "discourage" them.

What Franki-boy is doing here is admitting that he is too inarticulate and too offensive in his baseless but bottomless self-righteousness to convince anyone that cycling is a better form of transport, and jumping from there to forcing people out of their convenient automobiles so that they are forced onto bicycles instead.

If you don't grasp how that is a vicious perversion of democracy, what would you think if tomorrow morning Franki-boy woke up with a stroke and suddenly decided that cyclists are a menace to drivers and should be "discouraged", for instance by requiring a bicycle license of $10,000pa? The likelihood is that instantly you would agree with every word I said in this poor.

Andre Jute
Read the title of the thread, Franki=boy: "We're from the government. And we're here to help you." It's satirical, even sarcastic. It is not intended as an invitation to control freaks like you.