Cars are choking our cities.
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Cars are choking our cities. Bikes could set them free.
Choosing a bike instead of a car for short trips can slash travel emissions by around 75%, cut deadly air pollution and save billions in health costs.
Cycling is a climate solution that already exists, is dirt‑cheap, zero‑emission and fun.
The real “traffic problem” is not too many bikes, it is politicians too scared to take road space back from cars and give it to people.
And public transportation. I keep pushing for better busing in my area but I've been ignored for years.
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@noodlemaz @greenpeace
I'm 77 and dare not cycle but walk miles@Christo_459 @greenpeace that's great and I'm glad!
But presumably not to get somewhere at a specific time. Which is what we're generally talking about with wanting more cycle infrastructure in heavily motor vehicle-trafficked places. -
Cars are choking our cities. Bikes could set them free.
Choosing a bike instead of a car for short trips can slash travel emissions by around 75%, cut deadly air pollution and save billions in health costs.
Cycling is a climate solution that already exists, is dirt‑cheap, zero‑emission and fun.
The real “traffic problem” is not too many bikes, it is politicians too scared to take road space back from cars and give it to people.
@greenpeace We have to remember to drive the car every few weeks - cars aren't designed to be unused for months at a time.
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And, when you do build 'bicycle' space, please think about tricycles! If you have balance problems, or weaker bones, riding a bicycle may be quite difficult or dangerous, but a tricycle is self-balancing and becomes a chair when it stops.
But a lot of cycle infrastructure is just wide enough for a trike. If you can't keep it perfectly in the line of the middle of the path, you'll go over raised curbs or hit bollards. Or, if you're unlucky, is simply not wide enough at all.
@david_chisnall Exactly this, so many people can't bike the bi ones because of body problems.
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@david_chisnall @greenpeace imagine one day (in four months exactly) you wake up and see that people have discovered that current roads make for pretty fine n-cycle lanes - if you eliminate cars 🫢
@hrast a little place for public transport would also be nice because a lot of people from rural regions come to towns, too.
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Cars are choking our cities. Bikes could set them free.
Choosing a bike instead of a car for short trips can slash travel emissions by around 75%, cut deadly air pollution and save billions in health costs.
Cycling is a climate solution that already exists, is dirt‑cheap, zero‑emission and fun.
The real “traffic problem” is not too many bikes, it is politicians too scared to take road space back from cars and give it to people.
@greenpeace The prioritizing of cars in city planning is a crime against humanity. The latest victims are pedestrians who have to constantly be alert to scooters, bikes and e-bikes on the sidewalk. Sidewalks have become the only safe space for non-car transit and a danger to walkers.
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@Christo_459 @greenpeace that's great and I'm glad!
But presumably not to get somewhere at a specific time. Which is what we're generally talking about with wanting more cycle infrastructure in heavily motor vehicle-trafficked places.@noodlemaz @greenpeace
I get to places for a specific time by checking the distance and walking or getting a bus or tube. Cycling where I live is dangerous . Most car drivers are mindful of cyclists but there is always one who it not. -
@hrast a little place for public transport would also be nice because a lot of people from rural regions come to towns, too.
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@hrast
Here in France, in some big cities, we have such school buses. They have even solar panels on the roof if the kids and teachers get tired.
But they had restructured the whole streets for enough place and security.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work with our rural roads and distances to the next city. -
@hrast
Here in France, in some big cities, we have such school buses. They have even solar panels on the roof if the kids and teachers get tired.
But they had restructured the whole streets for enough place and security.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work with our rural roads and distances to the next city.@NatureMC @david_chisnall @greenpeace nice. I envision these on car-free roads, in conjunction with trams and *slow* trains.
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@noodlemaz @greenpeace
I get to places for a specific time by checking the distance and walking or getting a bus or tube. Cycling where I live is dangerous . Most car drivers are mindful of cyclists but there is always one who it not.@Christo_459 @greenpeace sure, my point is most people won't have time to walk from e.g. Hither Green to Bond St.
More people on bikes means less traffic for buses to navigate and fewer taken train seats. -
Cars are choking our cities. Bikes could set them free.
Choosing a bike instead of a car for short trips can slash travel emissions by around 75%, cut deadly air pollution and save billions in health costs.
Cycling is a climate solution that already exists, is dirt‑cheap, zero‑emission and fun.
The real “traffic problem” is not too many bikes, it is politicians too scared to take road space back from cars and give it to people.
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Cars are choking our cities. Bikes could set them free.
Choosing a bike instead of a car for short trips can slash travel emissions by around 75%, cut deadly air pollution and save billions in health costs.
Cycling is a climate solution that already exists, is dirt‑cheap, zero‑emission and fun.
The real “traffic problem” is not too many bikes, it is politicians too scared to take road space back from cars and give it to people.
Cycling is a viable alternative, but it requires a perfect storm of circumstances: personal travel for sufficiently abled people, able to afford a bicycle or live in a place where one can rent a bicycle, travelling to low-to-middle distances (20 Km tops under standard circumstances), carrying no more than 20 Kg of extra load, and on sufficiently enabling roads. And many of these circumstances rely on social factors that have been typically dismissed - bike-specific roads, good exercise habits, the affordability of bicycles themselves. These are the points that need more government push, if we want cycling to be sufficiently convincing for people. -
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