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Re:The popularity of e-bikes isn’t slowing down by ClumsyPilot on Monday November 08, 2021 @09:17PM (#29156926)
"That's a nice ideal but it's just not realistic in most existing built up areas. There's literally not enough space"

There was not enough space for cars, we tore down entire neighbourhoods and blasted through bedrock to create highways.

There is not enough money to fund a moon program or fix climate change, but when time came to bail out the banks, if you stacked that money as 1-dollar bills it would reach the moon.

There is not enough money to Fusion research, but our fossil fuel and airline subsidies in one year are greater that all-time fusion research budget.

Priorities.

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Re:The popularity of e-bikes isn’t slowing down by watwut on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:57AM (#29158585)
> There was not enough space for cars, we tore down entire neighbourhoods and blasted through bedrock to create highways.

The prioritization back then was that "those people" don't matter. That is how those were build.

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