May 13, 2019
What the media gets wrong, and why, says a lot about how our society views vulnerable road users
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What the media gets wrong, and why, says a lot about how our society views vulnerable road users
It is morning. You are slow-rolling off the exit ramp, nearing the end of the long-ass commute from your suburban enclav…
Beijing and Delhi are both planning major initiatives to kick cars off their streets, at least part of the time. Now even cities that aren’t famous for their pollution are taking drastic measures to clean up their air. Today, Milan’s streets are filled with bikes and pedestrians as part of three-day car ban.
“Six times more expensive to travel by car than by bicycle” It is six times more expensive for society - and for you individually - if you travel by car instead of cycling. This has been shown in a Lund University study of Copenhagen, a city of cyclists. It is the first time a price has been put on car use as compared to cycling. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-05-expensive-car-bicycle.html#jCp
In a recent study on the benefits of cycling in the European Union, commissioned by the European Cyclists’ Federation, researchers concluded that not only is cycling good for a population’s health, it’s good for its wallets as well.
At the time of the study, 655,000 people were employed in some aspect of the cycling industry, from retail to tourism to manufacturing.
Compare that to jobs in the automotive industry, as TakePart did, and we see that the cycling industry in Europe provides about 150,000 more jobs than Ford, General Motors and Chrysler combined.