People who sell car insurance think it is ok to poke fun at people trying to use bicycles in a country obsessed with cars. Streetsblog does not like this - and does not find it funny. They provide this link to the maker for your feedback.
I think I agree with them. Click now before it gets taken down and another grovelling apology appears. Did it make you smile?
I am a recusant transportation economist and regional planner, displaced from England by the abolition of the Greater London Council and a dislike of Thatcherism. Until March of 2004 I worked for the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority on wide variety of policy issues. None of these have been solved since I left, and the region now seems to be likely to abandon its long established growth strategy altogether, as the province is determined to expand its major freeway. I have long advocated more sensible policies to better integrate transport and land use. And this blog is a way to keep up the pressure! It also allows me to vent a bit on related issues.
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It made me smile a little bit because it’s so ludicrous, but the message at the end is definitely a resounding: we are car culture, you must drive, doing otherwise is lame, difficult, and silly. The ad would only be clever if the man were riding a unicycle, but then, that wouldn’t make any sense, would it?
You could change it to “Why we need more bike facilities” an it’d still work. Actually, it’d work better. How silly.