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Re:Pedestrian deaths spike in U.S. as reckless driving surges by paulcole on Monday February 14, 2022 @08:26AM (#30331713)
The idea of walking is foreign to a huge number of Americans, regardless of how fat/thin they might be. Try living in the suburbs and telling someone you’re going to walk an errand that’s 5 miles round-trip. You might as well tell them you’re going to Mars.

I grew up and lived in rural/suburban Florida (god-awful weather) and I never learned to drive. I walked everywhere (no sidewalks). People whose lives revolve around cars just can’t imagine a person walking longer than the distance from the parking lot to the front door.

Nearly everybody wishes they could drive less but nobody will actually drive less.

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Re:Pedestrian deaths spike in U.S. as reckless driving surges by aww_dang on Monday February 14, 2022 @08:37AM (#30331822)
People drive to the gym to run on a treadmill. I can allow for some circumstances where this makes sense, but that's not always the case.
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Re:Pedestrian deaths spike in U.S. as reckless driving surges by op00to on Monday February 14, 2022 @09:03AM (#30332082)
I don't do treadmill, but I used to run in the street and have since stopped. I mostly row now. My reasonings for treadmill vs running in the stret

- Safer than running on the street (crappy streets, ignorant drivers, etc.)

- I can concentrate on running, not on staying away from getting creamed by cars.

- They've got TV, I could get my garbage news fix (I don't read/watch news regularly)

- They've got bathrooms, running makes me shit sometimes, if I go out in the morning.

Of course, I stopped going to a gym because I do have an erg at home, and I don't really want to go to a large indoor location where people are huffing and puffing right now.

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