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  • eLJay
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    4 months ago

    It’s just not destined to ever be a ‘bike w/out 2 operating brakes’ city. Unless the hill grades are 20% I suppose. But even then an argument could be made against cars since hills drastically reduce their efficiency.

    • SubArcticTundra
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      4 months ago

      Hmm fair point. But even if you have breaks the average person doesn’t want to have to bike uphill all the time and even so the city is too vast for biking to be time-effective. Most people use the tram network instead (which goes up the hills)

      Just to illustrate this is what the hills over here look like: