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Even aside from the environmental expense and the financial expense of driving a car, people who drive everywhere must miss out on so much. Another joy of living in a walkable, bikeable city – you're constantly falling across the most random stuff that adds delight to the day. Stuff you’d never see from a car.
Helt fantastisk billede!
@folfdk Det var sødt af dig at sige - tak! Det er helt fantastisk, at nogen tænkte på at 'beplante' blomster i hullet. Jeg elsker mine med-Århusianer :-)
@CiaraNi great photo I bike to work and enjoy it most of the time - especially after i recently got my first new bike in 20 years. A lot of my colleagues get to work by car. Most of them would ditch the car instantly if the alternative was doable. I acknowledge the privilege it is to have biking be a real option.
@fideldonson Tak! And yes, it is a privilege here in Denmark that we have bike infrastructure and efficient public transport and walkable cities.
@CiaraNi this is a beautiful picture but at the same time it makes me very sad and weepy.
@aadams6363 I am sorry to have posted something that made you feel sad! It is an image that is open to interpretation and association, I think.
@CiaraNi don’t apologies. It is a beautiful strong symbol of life, these things just get me emotional.
#EndFossilFuels @CiaraNi 100%. The obsession with speed robs us of enjoyment. One of my favorite things when walking or biking is being able to slow down or stop to enjoy a nice scenery - something that would be preposterous on a car.
@mzedp Agreed. Walking and biking makes it easy to see, stop, look.
@CiaraNi Lovely photo. A gem to find. Walking or biking, just contemplating being on that public street involves significant anxiety. As much as it would be delightful to find a beautiful flower poking through the stones, I enjoy it far, far more as a photo than I could in person.
@dweebish Thank you!
Love this photo and esp. appreciate that someone put the flowers in the hole. I once fractured an ankle & tore ankle tendons & ligaments running across a bricked street in NYC & was felled by missing brick. At physical therapy after that at least 8 ppl had serious ankle/leg injuries, all from walking in NYC, from missing bricks/cobbles in streets, cracked/uneven sidewalks, slippery subway steps.
@sadele2 Agreed, it was a thoughtful thing to do. Neither I nor anyone else who passed by would've spotted the hole otherwise. (Fair dues to the council, though, it was fixed when I passed again a few days later.) You were most unfortunate! That was a painful and prolonged accident.
I would love a bikeable city. I'm not confident to go out in traffic 
@monkeyben I hope the cycle infrastructure improves where you are in the future so you can safely bike around - we are lucky here.
Thank you :)
@CiaraNi
There was a short period of time when my place of work was just 15 minutes walk away from where I lived. It was awesome. I could go home for lunch.
Even more awesome, the chuch I was a member of at the time, encouraged members to live nearby, rather than having to drive there. That meant you'd be much more likely to bump into someone you knew at the local grocery store. How to have a "country town" feel in an inner-city suburb!
@kerravonsen That sounds great. And it resonates - there are a lot of 15-minute neighbourhoods in our city. A "'country town' feel" is a great way to describe the atmosphere that creates.
@CiaraNi I feel the same way about train travel, even with Deutsche-Bahn.
@econads Yes! Agreed - train travel gives us that too. Chance sights, random experiences, little glimpses of life at a human-sized pace. Even with our DSB and your DB :-)