Monday, May 13, 2013
Journal Question # 18
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Do you ride a bicycle? There's a growing movement throughout the world to increase the number of bicycles and bicyclists, especially in cities. There are many good reasons to do this: bicycles are non-polluting; physical exercise is good for humans; as the above picture shows, bicycles take up much less space than motorized vehicles. Many cities have bike lanes; some people think there should even be bike-only roads. What do you think?
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- I have been a language teacher (ESL/ELL, French) for 30 years. I have taught in public and private schools, immersion programs, refugee programs, adult/continuing education, elementary, middle, and high school as well as university. Currently I teach ELL at a high school somewhere in New England.
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ReplyDeleteIn this time I think almost people want have a car,because it is fast and can save more time and physical strength.So people like car more than bicycle.But I think car is not the best choose First a car is more expensive than a bicycle and by bus.Second by car is not environmental protection.Third the car will create traffic jam In my hometown always traffic jam.It will late so I think by bus or bicycle batter than by car.
ReplyDeleteFor me bicycle is an excellent invention! I almost use bicycle everyday between school and home. And I strongly recommend government places a special road for bicycle. Although there are many roads have lines for bound bicycle road, some streets don't have that. It's very dangerous to ride bike with cars without obvious separate line. And I also support that we should use bike more. Riding bike is a good exercise and doesn't produce any pollution. What's more, It's considered as a wonderful approach to closing nature.
ReplyDeleteWe are in twenty-first century now. All of us want to go to school and go to work by the car in order to save more time. So most people like cars better. As far as I am concerned, I think the bicycle is better than the car. And I hope I can see bicycle lane in every city or country. Such as the city we are living-Saco. There is no bicycle lane in Main Street of Saco. It is very dangerous if we want to ride the bike. I like bikes because riding bike doesn't produce pollution. Also, it is a good exercise for us.
ReplyDeleteI love biking! Last days i was biking with my friends because the weather was glorious. I think we should have more bikes than cars. I love saving the environment and as you all said exercising is something what humans must do! There are a lot of advantages: skinny looking body, no pollution, more space the only thing what prevents people from doing that is laziness! Don't be lazy ! Eat less , exercise more, save our planet !
ReplyDeleteThough I am not good at bicycling, I support this movement a lot. Bicycle riding has many advantages. It is one of the least costly way of traveling except from walking. You can ask friends out by bicycle in order to have a nice conversation. Besides, it develops much less mechanical troubles than a car. Bicycle riding is especially good for health as mentioned in the preamble. It heals a broken mind. If you go to TA by riding a bicycle instead of driving or taking a bus, you can have a better chance of getting enough exercise you need everyday. Bicycling is also good for our environment. It is less noisy and does not pollute the air on the earth. Try to persuade everyone you know to ride a bicycle for the common benefits of all human beings!
ReplyDeleteIn the people's life now, we can not have normal life without the transportation. But from all of them,I think that bicycle is the best choice. Because the environment is turing bad follow the year, and the earth will not be able to hold that. Both cars and buses are have chemicals, but bicycles are much better than the others. In a lot of cities,there are bicycles station that people can borrow the bicycles instead taking a bus or driving a car. That is really good, but there is noting like that in my hometown because it is really cold in winter in Harbin, even colder than Saco and people can not ride bicycles in the winter on the snow. If the local government holds the bicycles station, there wil be a problem to save those bicycles in the winter. So this idea still needs to improve. But I think it is really good to ride a bike instead a bus or a car.
ReplyDeleteI'm not good at riding bicycle since I have learned ridden for only a week. Of course bicycle is good for environment. But car isn't invented for no reason, actually it helps us a lot. Try to think if you are living in a big city and your house is too far from your work office, would you rather ride a bike of drive a car?? I don't say that bike isn't good, but car is more convenient. I think we should suggest people cycling in center of city, especially places where are crowd. Just like Boston, it has a bike stop where everybody can rent a bike,I think, and cycling in a short distance. That is a really good idea. But nowadays, technology has been developing through everyday, they already invent green vehicle but the price isn't cheap. I believe that one day, this planet will full of green vehicle.
ReplyDeleteI ride a bicycle and it is really a lot of fun. I have a lot of friends who ride a bicycle. They think it is good for your health and it is good physical exercise.
ReplyDeleteMost of people can't ride a bicycle because they are to lazy and they have a car. Car is more comfortable and it is more faster. In my hometown we have groups who likes to rude a bicycle but we have a lot of cars. Cars are bad for the people. Bicycles are non-polluting and it is good.
In future if people are going to drive more cars the planet is going to be really dirty and people can't live on this planet.
I like to ride bike. Everyday, after school I ride bike with my cousins. It is good for health. I think bicycle can be good transportation for people in this time. There are many reasons for that. First of all, it is healthy than other transportations. Less gas, more health. Second bicycles take up place less than other transportation. Then to ride bike is more cheaper than to drive car. But there is problem that if you have to go far, you have to go their for some days. But it is useful for little cities. For my opinion, in my country people can not make bike lanes or something like this. Because there are not many people that ride bikes. They ride bikes only in parks.
ReplyDeleteI really like biking, actually I go to my school (back in my country) by bike, it's a really easy way for teenagers to go wherever they want without contaminating the world, it's also cheaper than the car.
ReplyDeleteIn my country we have a lot of places full of bike-only roads and that helps us a lot because we avoid a lot of accidents. People are just too lazy to notice that they are destroying our planet, and that they are becoming fat and slothful.
So my advice above all this would be to stop eating fat food and start doing physical exercices like bike:) !trust me you will feel much better when you do it"
I hate the car, although it is very convenient. Now more and more people buy a car, which is why the pollution of environment increases. Whenever I see the back of the car exhaust emissions, my mood will become unhappy. I think that the bike is very good, you can make it as a transport, and you can also use it to exercise. There have bike lanes in China; I think we should set the bike lanes because such bicycle and the car would not be crowded together, and also to avoid traffic accidents. My mother taught me to ride a bike when I was 4 years old, and I rode a bike to school everyday when I was in China. Every family has a private car now and it makes people lack of exercises and physical fitness. I heard that there are some people traveling by bike. I think this is a good thing, if there is a chance, I will to try.
ReplyDeleteI like biking when I was study in middle school and I bike to school everyday at that time. I think riding bicycle is faster than driving in some cases and I can save a lot of time. In the other hand, biking will not make pullution. Overall, I think there should be bike-only roads.
ReplyDeleteI know how to ride bikes, but I'm not very good at it. Biking is healthy and it take less space, but we need to travel to more places nowadays. So we really do need cars and airplanes. As much as we love bike riding, we still have to have more high technology transportations.
ReplyDeleteI like biking, but I dont prefer the suggest that bike-only road, because for some people, their house is really far away from their companies, so i might be trouble if they go to work by biking. It is truth that biking is a healthy and non-polluting way for people and it can also save plenty of public space, we still need other transportation.
ReplyDeleteI love biking! I remember I fell from the bicycle when I was 10-year-old. It was really badly, but I still love it. I have been biking for 10years. And the reason is I think biking is a good physical exercise for us. I always ride a bike once a week. I fell relaxed when I ride the bicycle. On the other hand, as for me, bike is also a good transportation. It is very convenient because there is no need for parking. Anyway. I love biking so much.
ReplyDeleteAs the technology period coming, more and more people use machine instead of others. that cause the environment get worse and worse. although cars save us a lot of time, i prefer to ride bicycle. i like biking but i don't really have lots of change to ride.
ReplyDeleteAs the elapse of time, the fast increase in the number of motorized vehicles have brought along problems. Not only the city urban traffic is getting from bad to worse, but the air quality in urban areas is deteriorating with each passing day. Riding bicycles is a good way to solve these problems. In the one hand, bicycles cause no pollution and take up less space. In the other hand, bicycles can provide more opportunities for people to exercise. However, cars cannot be replaced by bicycle completely. After all, cars have some advantage that bicycles never catch up. For example, cars never get tired after rapid long-distance travel, but people riding bicycles do.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I have never ridden a bicycle since I got in middle school. I don’t think, in cities, bicycles are useful. It takes a lot of time to get destination by bicycle. Everyone has only twenty-four hours ever day, so that people cannot waste time on riding bicycles, unless they just want to do physical exercise. People living in cities have to take bus or driving cars to get wherever they need though bicycles are non-polluting.
ReplyDeleteI have not been riding bicycle for almost four year. Occasionally, I would travel by bicycle but not a lot. Despite that, I still think replacing the vehicles with bicycles in the city would exert a positive impact on the air quality. Travelling by bicycle is also good for our bodies. We can exercise by doing that. In the city, when the traffic is heavy riding a bicycle to some place close may even save us some time. However, in reality, I think it is pretty hard for bicycle to replace the cars in city. Nowadays, people lack in patience. It is almost impossible for us to slow down and riding a bicycle instead of driving a car. Hopefully, one day we will enjoy the slow life and protect our Earth.
ReplyDeleteI have not been riding for a long time,and i chose to ride a bike in China instead of taking a car if the place is not too far. Despite that, i still prefer to replace the vehicles with the bicycles in the city. However, if it is a long distance, you could drive instead of riding a bicycle. On the one hand, it could reduce the air pollution in the city, and less CO2 would be produced. This will provide a great environment for our life, and it will make less impacts in the biosphere.On the other hand, it will save our oil's fee. But in reality, it is hard to achieve this goal. More and more people are getting lazy, they choose to drive even it is a short distance.And now, the solar system came out,air pollution could not be a reason. Hopefully, one day we will create a new technology and live in a comfortable environment!
ReplyDeleteI had ridden bike for three years while I was in middle school. And I enjoy it very much. So I support to have bike lanes. Nowadays, gas pollution is one of the worst pollutions in our world, and car gas pollution is a large component. In a short distance, riding a bike is even faster than driving a car. More pollution, but less efficiency, so we are support to give up car s. Riding a bike is also healthy for us. I used to spend 30 mins riding my bike. Sometime it's not safe to ride a bike in cities, cause of too many cars. So cities should have bike lanes to protect people who ride bikes. It also can make cities be orderly.
ReplyDeleteI like biking,and the bicycle is the most common means of transport in our country.And now fixed gear bicycle is more and more popular.A fixed gear bike, or fixed differs from other bikes in that it lacks a free-wheeling mechanism that allows you to coast without pedalling. So on a fixed, whenever you are cycling along, the pedals are always going round and round.That a very interesting, And I always bike to school when I was in china.And I think that biking is a healthy and non-polluting way for people.
ReplyDeleteYes, I used to ride bike when back home as a transportation way, because it is cheaper to afford a bicycle than a car, you can do exercise, you don't get stopped by traffic and it doesn't affect the environment. Nowadays, as we are having many issues related to obesity, stress in the traffic, and pollution, I think bicycling would be a way to solve many of the problems that our society has. However, it requires that people change their mind about it, because drivers need to respect and be patients with bikers, and governments need to create a structure of bike lanes where bicycling become something accessible and safe for anyone.
ReplyDeleteI like riding bicycle, I feel so comfortable when I biking. Bicycle is a very convenient vehicle. It is nonpolluting, the air in China is very bad, the skies in some big cities are very dirty, the sky in my hometown is always grey, we cannot really see the blue sky in China, it is because too many cars, buses and factories in China and make a lot of dirty air. If people can ride bicycle instead of driving cars, the air will be better.
ReplyDeleteAlso, riding bicycle is a good way to do some exercise, physical exercise is good for our health.
There are bike-only lane in China, but the population of bikes in China is decreasing each year. I guess the reason is as the technology develop, humans need has changed. People need more efficiently ways to solve peoples' transportation problem. As the technology develop, the world became smaller and smaller for humans, we need to be faster and faster to reach the places we want to reach. But sometimes we don't really need to be that rush about time like go somewhere not really far for picnic, we can ride bike. We have to try our best to decrease the pollution that makes the world worse. But we also should solve transportation problem. So the best way I think is develop some less pollution and more efficiently transportation. And we also should fit in peoples demand.
ReplyDeleteI think there is no way to let everyone ride a bike. I ride bike when I was in middle school, and I actually didn't want ride bike, because it was so cold in winter. I acknowledge that ride bike is very green, I mean it's good for people and environment. But, do you think people will by a bike when they have money? I don't think so! Bike also has many disadvantages. Speed is the one of them, it may cost you five times of the time when you drive a car. Manned amount is another one, for instance, if you and your little kids want go to camping, would you like to let your kids ride a bike? I don't think so, either. That's only my opinion.
ReplyDeleteCertainly,bikes are nonpolluting to the environment. However, bikes are the slowest transport. In my opinion, money can buy the fastest transport to save time if you are rich enough, but it cannot save the time. On the other hand, biking is a good choice to do exercise. I rode a bike for 2 years. It also is the cheapest way to save money; it doesn't need to change a new engine or add gas, etc. But for the environment, planting trees is better than only biking. If there are no trees in the city and all the people are using bikes, this will help a little bit lessen the carbon dioxide. Besides, so many cars can make a traffic jam, like inBeijing, people on the average spend 2 hours going to work, 2hours going back home, or even worse. Between the two kinds of transportation, bike or car, actually, the bus or subway is the best transport in the city.
ReplyDeleteI like to ride a bicycle because it is very convenient and green. A car will emit large amounts of emissions,pollute the air and do damage to the human body. All over the world people are increasingly concerned about global warming, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, species extinction and other environmental problems of humankind today. Low-carbon emission is a very environmentally friendly and civilized thing. Therefore, I think there should even be bike-only roads.
ReplyDeleteI don't think there should even be bike-only roads. That's impossible to let every one rides bike. The bike will never replace cars. Riding bike is good for the environment,for the human. But no one wants to ride a bike in the winter. That's so cold. Another point, the car is faster than a bike. For example, it you are in NYC, your home is in Saco. There is an important thing happened in your home. You have to go back as soon as possible. Can you just ride a bike to home fome NYC to Saco?? Are you kidding me? So in my opinion, just decrease the car. That's not means stop using car.
ReplyDeletei think in this world,People will need bike and car both.if u living in the small city like saco you need a bike you also can choose car either.but if u in the big city like new york city .i think u can just choose bike .bacause big city have buys triffic.and also big city have many public transportation u can choose.so if i live in small city i will choose both,if i live in a big city i will choose bike.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, I think ride bicycle is better than drive the car. Maybe the reason is that I haven't started to touch the car yet. So I think bicycle is the better choice to move. Now, there are more and more car all over the world. Half of the people almost have the car, some of them even have more than one. But too many cars will make the traffic become worse and worse. The people waste more time because of the traffic jam, the environment get more pollution because cars discharge the exhaust gas, and there are more accidents happen because some people are drunk, overspeed or overload when they are driving. It's so dangerous for ourself and it also bad for the young generation. These reasons make me feel that is better to ride bicycle. It only needs to use a small space to move. When you use it, you can also get exercises from in the way. And the bicycle will not go to pollute the air. What a perfect vehicle it is! So I think it is great let the bicycle to replace the car, people will be surprised after they do the change.
ReplyDeleteEvery year's June 5th is World Environment Day and in China we will try to take a bus or ride bicycle instead of drive a car. These two ways are really good for us but I think to ride a bicycle is the best. Now the bicycle riding being able to take the body exercise, can economize the sources of energy. But, I am also the person who loves to ride a bicycle, because of being able to protect the environment. In today's times, low-carbon and environmental protection have become a way of life. Bicycle has become the most respected transport again. People around the world have used a variety of riding activities to advocate the concept of low-carbon travel.
ReplyDeleteCars are bad because they make air polluted. Despite this fact, we should have cars in city. We can't ride a bike for the whole day because we can get tired very quickly. Also we can't travel long distance by riding a bike. We have a lot of factories the also pollute air. So cars are not only things which pollute air.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to ride the bicycle in the city. there are a lot of cars in the city, people want the speed, they want faster and faster. So, the environment getting worse and worse. and if you want to ride a bicycle in the city, it's not good for your healthy, you will inhale a lot of gas. riding a bike is good way to relax and fitness. but, in this time, it's hard to do. and you cann't go to LA by bike if you are living in Saco. so I don't think its good. About the bicycle lines. there are bicycle lines in China, but sometimes the car drive in the bicycle line. so. I really don't think its good. these are just my opinions.
ReplyDeleteNowadays,it's important for us to live the low-carbon life.The first thing we can do is to ride the bikes.Because first,bikes are cheaper than cars.Second,it's easy to find the place to park bikes.Third,the oil is not necessary for bikes,so bikes won't produce the dirty air.Finally,we can ride bikes to keep fit.Let's ride the bikes instead of cars to protect the environment!
ReplyDeleteHave you ever rided a bike with tender spring wing in March? Letting wing touches your hair randomly and watching views pass behind you. There are a lot of enjoyment. Unfortunately, more and more people choose automobil to be their transportation instead of bicycle. The automobil brings convenience to our life but also generates a number of problems. Global warming, traffic issues, and hypomotility. The bast way to solve those crises is life as green life. For example, when you want to go to a place where has long distance between your location, Just take a bus or subway. If you like to go to somewhere is near your location, what don't you ride a bike. It not also can save your gas fee but also makes you have enough excise for your day. We can always avoid using car unless it's necessary.
ReplyDeleteyes i think that we should ride a bick every day, because bicycles are non-polluting and bicycles are good for people's health. i love ride bicycles, when i ride bicycle i was feel so happy. and i agree with bicycles take up much less space than motorized vehicles, so people can take walk easlier. so, i hope all the people can ride bicycles every day, it can make our city more beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThanks, everyone, for your comments on bicycles and the growing movement to replace automobile traffic with bike traffic when and where possible. Most of you are for this trend, though some of you note the practical problems with riding a bicycle as opposed to convenience of cars, especially in cold weather and over longer distances.
ReplyDeleteI think that having a car is a better way to live in the city. Because during the weekdays, the city is always busy. You cannot use a bike to get to work if you are living far from your company. You will be late! Actually we can get physical exercise from other things. You can have a walk after dinner or you can go to the gym after work. It has many ways to stay healthy and strong. Do not use the bike or you will mess up your job.
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ReplyDeleteI am that kind of girl who is not good at sports so I don’t know how to ride either the bike or the car. So it seems the transportation is not a problem for me. I think walking is the best way to exercise. Whatever you walk after eating or in the morning, walking is good for everyone. But in china, it’s not so good when you are walking in the street. As the environment in china is awful and according to the amount of the cars in china, I don’t suggest people walk on the street, you will breath bad air in so you will get sick!