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Chinese have been using bicycles and now e-bikes for 30+ years to get around town ... is the west catching on?
8 years 51 weeks ago in Transport & Travel - China
Chinese HAD been using bikes and e-bikes. Now anyone who can is buying a car and those who don't probably just can't because they don't have the money.
Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are better for so many reasons but I don't think it's a matter of the west catching up to China, I think it's how long before China is making all of the mistakes the west did. I think they're catching up fast.
RandomGuy:
The idea in China is to have as many cars they can because selling cars is good for the GDP. So that means the car drivers are the kings and can get away with everything they want.
I have a car so I'm not poor as fuck but I don't see any reason to take it out to get around my district so I use my bicycle instead. In addition to being faster on short distances it allows me to keep healthy unlike any Chinese guy above 23 who's already entering dad body and building fat.
Quite often I am on the bicycle path and get honked by cars who think it's okay to drive on it and that they have priority, I never bulge, ignore them, sometimes even slow down to annoy them.
Happened a few times some of them bumped into me, I got off my bike and told the drivers that we are going to wait for the cops, each and every times they had to pay me compensation (a hundred or so).
The idea is to have more cars but to preserve social harmony in case of collision the more expensive vehicle owner will always be the one paying compensation to the cheaper vehicle owner.
Some of them tried to point out my foreignness in order to gain the cops sympathy, didn't seem to work, I guess me speaking Chinese and giving cigarettes to the cops helps, I don't smoke but always have a package on me, just in case.
Many countries are advocating the use of bicycles and man pulled rickshaws .....
No pollution, eco friendly, cheap .......