If you are not a bike person & primarily travel in a single-occupancy vehicle, what are the barriers to you personally switching to an ebike for local (3-5 miles) transportation?
Are you ebike curious?
Do you see a connection between your personal driving habits, especially local trips (3-5 miles) & climate change?
If you answered yes above, do you feel that your local & state government should be responsive to requests for safe biking and walking infrastructure NOW?
Do you think increased biking infrastructure makes a city/town more attractive for potential residents? (this is a gimme)
"Your car isn't more important than my life" is the sentence that I said to the woman who close passed me, and listen, I bike, we expect that you are going to be dumb, so when I say close pass, I mean, I could be dead. (1)
I caught up with her at the next traffic light because guess what? Your bad judgement doesn't actually get you there faster. I stopped at her window. She was happily chatting away on her bluetooth phone. I said, "you were too close." (2)
She rolls down her window and angerly, because I have pierced her bubble with inconvenience, says, "There was a car coming in the other direction." meaning, in her mind, that she couldn't possibly have just waited. "I said, then you wait. You wait." (3)