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.
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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