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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday April 30 2015, @11:55PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Thursday April 30 2015, @11:55PM (#177322) Homepage

    I drive a car like most normal people here, and in San Diego those without the luxury of living near where they work may drive between 20-30 thousand miles for the daily work commute alone.

    Here in San Diego people who can ride their bikes to work are called Douche-bikers, because in the North of San Diego they are middle and C-level managers with dickhead helmets and bumblebee spandex. In the South and Central areas of San Diego, they are hipsters riding bikes with no brakes while on the way to their jobs making coffee for Starbucks. And in the East of San Diego, people riding bikes are criminals who just jacked a 12-pack from the liquor store or a few bottles of pills from the local pharmacy.

    The geography and layout of San Diego is extremely hostile to cyclists if they live and work in different areas -- we have a "star" topology rather than a big grid-like structure, so they generally live close to where they work if they can ride their bikes to work.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @03:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @03:20PM (#178537)

    Oh crap, you live in S.D.? Time to move.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Friday May 08 2015, @10:00AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Friday May 08 2015, @10:00AM (#180256) Journal

    The geography and layout of San Diego is extremely hostile to cyclists

    My impression from a couple of visits was that the geography of San Diego is pretty hostile to everyone. It seems to be designed such that nowhere you are is allowed to be less than 20-30 minutes drive (more in traffic) away from where you want to be. I'm amazed that anyone who lives there spends any time outside of the car at all. If it weren't for the climate, I suspect you'd all have left long ago.

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