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Re:The popularity of e-bikes isn’t slowing down by barry-cotter on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @02:12AM (#29158686)
That's a fact about policy choices, not something that can't be changed. If building housing wasn't illegal it would be built. Developers love money and the Green Belt is quite big enough to spare one Mnahattan's area if it was politically possible to build a Manhattan's worth of housing on it.
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Re:The popularity of e-bikes isn’t slowing down by chrisseaton on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @06:24AM (#29160223)
> That's a fact about policy choices, not something that can't be changed.

Ok but now we’ve moved from ‘bicycling is relatively practical’ to ‘it’d be relatively practical if only everything about our politics and built environment was instantly completely different.’

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