Dear Future Cyclists of America,*
*MBTA Passengers
Does your commute look like this?
Or like this?
You’re probably nervous about biking on the roads, but maybe it’s time to consider a change.
But if you’re not ready to take the leap to cycling just yet, just know that when you’re going to always be more than 30 minutes late meeting me for brunch I’m going to go ahead and take the long way there. So when you are stuck here:
Know that I am here…
…greeting Hubway users. Maybe I’ll take them to brunch if you don’t show.
I like your art but as a logical argument this cartoon is highly intellectually dishonest. You contrast a highly rare event like a tunnel evacuation and somewhat more common events of delayed trains and noisy customers with a nice pleasant day out biking. Why not make it an accurate comparison by comparing it to some of the common hazards and hardships of biking, some of which you’ve shown in other cartoons? For example instead of a nice pleasant day of biking why not show someone getting doored or clipped by a car, or biking to work in a driving snowstorm on a 12 degree January day while the T quickly rumbles by all toasty warm? Why not accurately contrast the effort needed to bike to work with the freedom allowed by public transit to do something other than manage your way through the world? Furthermore, your depiction of biking along the esplanade is also dishonest in that you contrast this with commuting. Well most of the biking going on on the esplanade is for fun and exercise, not for commuting and lots of people who ride the T will also go out and enjoy the Esplanade.
To be fair, there’s actually a bike path all the way along the Charles River on both sides, from Watertown Square all the way to the Museum of Science in Cambridge. (http://www.bikexprt.com/massfacil/pdwhite.htm) It goes right past the Esplanade, but is separate from it. I commute this way by bike frequently, about ten miles from Newton to the east side of MIT. (Just because it’s a commute doesn’t mean it can’t also be fun and exercise.)
BF has hit the big time – the Bike Dogmatics are here.
Good name for a band.
Love it & so true! Bikes rule!
I am living in Toronto and visited Boston for a week back in Sept. I bought a 7-day charlie pass, and a 3-day hubway pass. I found Boston MBTA Subway and Boston Hubway bike sharing program equally impressive. I was really surprised by how smooth the subway run despite the age of the subway system, not to mention the lower fare compare to my city. As for the hubway, the # of bikes and coverage may not match my town, but Boston did a good job in using the limited docks and bikes and I saw Bostonian took full advantage of them.
My bike makes me just BETTER than everyone else. Having to use public transport? GO FUCK YOURSELF. You should ride a bike! Disabled? Got no legs? NO EXCUSE. If you don’t ride a bike you should kill yourself.
Did I do this right? This fits in.
don’t forget, if you ride a bike everyone has to dive out of your way so they don’t get run over by your entitled ass, and then bow down to you for saving the environment.