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A comment on Berlin's Plan to Become a City for Cyclists. Parent comment

Re:Berlin's Plan to Become a City for Cyclists by scythe on Thursday December 21, 2017 @12:45AM (#15976721)
That's not statistically valid reasoning. If biking vs driving makes some people not have kids, but not everyone, then in a city where driving is prohibitively expensive you'd still expect most parents to be on a bike. That's because the others didn't switch to cars, they didn't have kids, or they moved. I don't know what riding with one of those bike chariots is like, but being confined to a bike already sucks, I assume dragging a kid around behind you is even worse.
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Re:Berlin's Plan to Become a City for Cyclists by bkor on Thursday December 21, 2017 @09:51AM (#15979058)
You're assuming the cycling is causing people to have less children. It would be nice to provide some statistically valid sources to explain why you think that's so.

I live in the Netherlands and your assumption is pretty strange one. Mostly because it's not one or the other. You can do loads of things by bike while also having a car. Further, especially now with electric bikes you can transport an insane amount of children via a bike easily. Meaning: I see people transporting 5 or 6 children by bike (PS: this is on some fixed schedule, so not a one off, it is around the same time Mon-Fri).

A bike is often more convenient than a car.

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Re:Berlin's Plan to Become a City for Cyclists by scythe on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:04AM (#15979781)
>You're assuming the cycling is causing people to have less children. It would be nice to provide some statistically valid sources to explain why you think that's so.

No, I'm providing alternate explanations for an observation that the previous poster claims shows that cycling does not cause people to have less children. I don't need to prove it happens, just show it's possible. Of course the "burden of proof" will always be assumed to fall on me because I disagree with popular opinion.

I hope you enjoy the Netherlands. I never want to live in the Netherlands, and I'm sick and tired of people trying to turn the places I like into the Netherlands.

Biking sucks. I do not want to ride a bike. Take your self-righteous crap and fuck off.

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