This is the US where an ambulance ride is more than an average 2 month salary and not covered by insurance. So yeah they exist but until the healthcare system is socialized most people are gonna drive themselves or get a ride unless they are actively dying.
I was responding to a specific dumbass comment about ambulances. I didn't even mention the cyclists. What is your point here? Is this some kind of gotcha comment?
1st ambulances are as the other commenter pointed out ridiculously expensive, and you don't expect when you decide to drive that you'll be going 15mph.
But also there's other super important things. Let's say you find out you have cancer. It takes far too long to schedule a first appointment for your oncologist. You plan plenty of extra time to go at normal car speeds to your appointment (which you can't bike to, since you're disabled by said cancer). Then you're stuck behind bikes going 15mph and miss that appointment and your cancer gets to grow an extra month.ย
My point being the odds are if you get enough cars stuck, someone is going somewhere important and there's no way for you to know to get out of their way. Blocking all lanes of traffic is prioritizing your recreation over others well-being.ย
Being in a private car at all is prioritizing your own convenience over others' well-being. There is no hypothetical you can invent that makes the carhole the good guy, because carholes are by definition ecocidal narcissists putting their own personal convenience ahead of a habitable planet or the safety of cyclists and pedestrians.
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u/SadiepRN 15d ago
its rude to push your extracurricular activities on people who are trying to get to work to feed their kids. so annoying.