Solo Drivers should be appreciative of buses, bicyclists, pedestrians and carpoolers -not resentful

[liberalhistorian]

60. Thank you, THAT is what I was trying to say.

But anything short of total bike/pedestrian worship is considered to be against them, when nothing could be further from the truth. They don't understand the reality of where many people live. When I lived in a downtown city studio apartment, I really could literally walk or ride a bike to get anything I needed. It was for longer work business trips or travel outside the city that I needed and used my car.

But here in a very rural area, that is simply not realistic or practical at all. Especially in this rural state, where most people will live fifty-one hundred miles or more from a larger town or city. It is just not realistic or practical to only use a bike or your feet. But, to them, that means that we are automatically anti-bike and anti-pedestrian. There was once a letter in a local paper of the city I used to live in that said that bike riders had much more rights to the streets than "lazy, overweight, smoking" car drivers. Never mind that most of them had to drive forty miles or more one way to work and then back, among other things. Some people need a good hard dose of reality.