News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on A New Bike Lane That Could Save Lives and Make Cycling More Popular. Parent comment

Re:A New Bike Lane That Could Save Lives and Make Cycling Mo... by sleepyhead on Monday June 23, 2014 @01:06AM (#7930348)
Is there any other country that is built for individual automobile transportation the way the US is?

I haven't been to France but have you been to Amsterdam, Berlin or Copenhagen?

It is perfectly valid to criticize US without it being "the US is strange and stupid"

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:A New Bike Lane That Could Save Lives and Make Cycling Mo... by bane on Monday June 23, 2014 @01:19AM (#7930383)
Yeah sure. Australia struck me as very "american" in feeling. Lots of the new Chinese development is specially car friendly. Same with new Russian development. I was surprised with how unfriendly Ireland was to anything but a car.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:A New Bike Lane That Could Save Lives and Make Cycling Mo... by hessenwolf on Monday June 23, 2014 @04:58AM (#7930899)
It's amazing when you get further out into the country in the Republic. There's almost no option to safely get down the road unless you are in a vehicle.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:A New Bike Lane That Could Save Lives and Make Cycling Mo... by mikeash on Monday June 23, 2014 @01:48AM (#7930429)
It's perfectly valid to criticize the US based on how the US is. It's not valid to criticize it based on some notion that the US is unique in a way that it is not.

I have no problem with stuff like "the US should...." Where I have a problem is with "everybody else does it another way" when it's just not true.

Aside from adopting the metric system, I can't think of any legitimate criticism that fits that mold. Bicycles certainly don't seem to.

[ Parent | on HN ]