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I’m not driving to whatever it is.
Same for when I get to work…
🤣
I park as far away as I’m able to walk in order not to drive around to find parking. I’ve found that it saves time on the long run, gas, and mor importantly my own stress and mental health.
I do that to. What I love is that while walking the last hundreds meters to the place you are going you can see all the people who try to park close that are all getting angry in their cars, proving you were right to park further away.
Once you start you never go back.
Laughs in European
Hon hon hon
Fill in the blank with any EU country after shaking hands with France lol
If you can bike, bike. Bike parking always within 50m of the venue 😎
I will drive 20 extra minutes not to wait 10 minutes in gridlock.
I will park a mile away and walk in rather than circle for 10 minutes for a parking spot.
I wife is not a fan of either of these traits.
Driving further to avoid traffic makes sense: it seems to cause stress:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/(SICI)1098-2337(1999)25:6<409::AID-AB2>3.0.CO;2-0
Wait, you’re telling me we don’t have a return plan EITHER?
Head exploding…
The event might be groceries and I just don’t have the mental fortitude to deal with both a full parking lot I will have to walk from the other side of, but also wade through the sea of people inside.
The walking doesn’t bother me, I usually park more than halfway to the far side anyway since there’s less cars and I can pull through the spaces to park easier.
It’s way before that for me. When I get word of the event, I look up the venue immediately to see the parking situation. If it’s bad and the event isn’t too important, I’m not going.
I’m at the age where I don’t even have a car.
12?
I did have a lot of cars at 12 but they were all of the matchbox variety.
Well you had no excuse. Didn’t even need to park those, just throw it in a pocket when you’ve arrived.
Surely I’m not the only one with a collection of negative camber cars because I was convinced that this one could work like a roller skate.
Lol big city europe that age is 30.
20k town Europe and way past 30 with kids.
I personally can drive, but living in a european medium/small city I know a lot of people in their thirties that doesn’t even know how to drive because they don’t need to.
Middle of nowhere, Europe, 40ish
I don’t own a car, I don’t need one. One excuse less.
Then why did you take your car?
“I’m going home because I didn’t find a parking space” sounds like someone who drove there entirely alone. Look how much space a car takes up for just one person.
Because public transport sucks in USA, due to car companies bribing/lobbying the corrupt government.
There’s no USA mentioned in the post
Agreed. Americans don’t mention usa. We just assume we are the center of the universe.
I’m not from the USA. I was speaking generally.
I’m at the age that the first train to the event being full is enough to make me go home.
Sadly the event I’m usually attending is called work
Woo, go boss! WOOOO! waves oversized finger all over, hitting several coworkers
WOOOOOOO
But cars are freedom! They let you go anywhere you want, right? /s
Yes, like away from crowded areas.
As yes, in the immortal words of Kris Kristofferson, “Freedom’s just another word for deciding where you want to go based on other people not wanting to go there, too. (And somebody building a road to get there.)”
I don’t drive a car and hate them very much, but I have this in common with motorists. Only what I’m looking for is a secure place to lock my bike. Which is somehow often rarer than a parking space for cars.
I got my bike stolen while it was locked by the side of a Walmart, so now I’m much more careful about the “parking situation” and I use a bike share or public transit if I fear for the safety of my vehicle.
That’s something I wonder about: don’t bike people get their bikes stolen all of the time?
Maybe I’ve just seen too many Lockpicking Lawyer videos.
Yes, and no. Theft can be a strong possibility, but not “all the time”. It depends a lot on where you lock the bike, its value, and how you lock it.
I have had two bikes stolen twice in about 10 years. One was a hybrid worth about $1k. It was locked with a cable by the side of a Walmart in a neighborhood of questionable reputation. It took me about 15 minutes to get in and out and the cable was cut when I came back. The other was also a hybrid worth about $1k. It was stolen while locked with a cable, in the underground garage of my building. However I have another “cheap” bike from a big retail store locked with a very cheap cable lock in the same garage, and nobody stole it.
So now even if my contract says I can’t bring a bike in the apartment, my “expensive” hybrid takes the elevator with me and stays in my living room. I also now use a thick U-lock because cables are risky. But even then I know very well that leaving it locked with a U-lock outside for any prolonged period of time is also risky.
If you have a “nicer” bike than average, you have to be mentally prepared to have it stolen at some point. Not “all the time”, but maybe a few times in your life, depending on your luck and locations.
I never had a bike stolen even during the few years I was using one as my main form of wheeled transit. It helped though that I never had an expensive bike, always locked it up when I left it (average cable lock), and had somewhere secure to leave it at night.
Speaking from experience, no, they really don’t.
As LPL will tell you, you don’t need to have the most secure thing on the planet, you just need to be a hard enough target that the thief gives up or picks something else.
If you don’t lock your bike, sure it’ll get stolen from some places.
Bike theft is a crime of opportunity. Nobody is stalking a specific bike to take, it’s usually “oh shit there’s one that looks easy imma take it”
I have a hardened steel U-bolt lock and a thick AF cable (do not get any cables under 1/2in as they can be easily cut with side cutters or even good wire strippers) the U lock goes through the frame, the cable and disc lock go through the wheels as well. I also like to take my seat with me in my bag, since nobody wants to ride a bike without a seat.
If your bike is expensive enough it’ll be targeted. People with very valuable bikes don’t leave them in the same place repeatedly for that reason.
Speaking of opposite experience, absolutely. Even if you lock it down, high likelihood of getting stolen, especially if left overnight, and if it’s a ‘high value’ bike, especially an e-bike.
That’s a relief. I’m walking from home to the bus stop currently, but considering a bike to help speed things up.
Get an old bike that’s in good mechanical condition but looks shitty.
Alternatively, figure out how to take the bike with you on the bus. My transit system’s buses have bike racks on the front, but if yours doesn’t, get a folding bike (e.g. a Brompton).
I actually used to ride my bike to the closest stop when I lived further away from town.
Locked it up somehwre close, come back and ride it home.
Nowadays my bikes are a little more expensive so I don’t like to lock them where I can’t see them all day, but I’m fairly sure it will still be there when I come back.
The one time it DID get stolen, it was specifically because I forgot my lock that day. I called a friend, we drove around town for a bit and I spotted some guy on it, called the cops and told them I’m about to confront the guy who stole my bike and if they care to show up we’re at the park. (don’t bother saying you want them to intervene, tell them you are confronting someone and they’ll show up thinking maybe someone is about to get shot) and when the guy tried to say he bought the bike heads ago, I told the cop I’m taking the handlebars off to prove something. Took them off with the toolkit I keep in my bag, and pulled out a piece of paper with my name,partial address, and phone number on it. The guy started sprinting the second he realized I have proof it’s mine. I also pulled out my New Bike Day photo of it but the paper with my details inside the frame is a lot harder to argue against.
Yeah somehow finding a pole or something to lock the bike to is impossible sometimes.
It’s illegal where I live to lock a bike to “urban furniture”, and a pole is also often not the safest place. If not stolen, it will be removed by the city.
