Creating a network of safe cycling infrastructure. These other ideas are great but will need decades and billions of dollars to execute.
Bicycles are perfectly adequate for most trips people take in their day to day life—but most people don’t use them because it’s not safe. Solve that problem and you have a cheap fun way to get around for a huge portion of the population. With e-bikes the needed level of fitness is low and you can cover greater distances in a reasonable amount of time too.
The great thing about bike patgs is all you have to do to make a road or street into a bikeway is decide that’s what it’s for now. And a protected bikeway made out off road lanes can be new paint and a jersey barrier. That’s how New York has been making them.
Creating a network of safe cycling infrastructure. These other ideas are great but will need decades and billions of dollars to execute.
Bicycles are perfectly adequate for most trips people take in their day to day life—but most people don’t use them because it’s not safe. Solve that problem and you have a cheap fun way to get around for a huge portion of the population. With e-bikes the needed level of fitness is low and you can cover greater distances in a reasonable amount of time too.
The great thing about bike patgs is all you have to do to make a road or street into a bikeway is decide that’s what it’s for now. And a protected bikeway made out off road lanes can be new paint and a jersey barrier. That’s how New York has been making them.