I hope that this article elicits a variety of comments:
Financial Post 12/05/2017 business.financialpost.com
Lawrence Solomon: Ban the bike! How cities made a huge mistake in promoting cycling
Cycling lanes consume more space than they free up, add to pollution and drain the public purse.
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"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
No apologies necessary - you got it posted perfectly. Thank you!
That was a very eye-opening article. I've always ascribed to the motto that too much of anything is a bad thing, and I'd not considered the ramifications of swinging the pendulum too far in favor of dedicating infrastructure toward bicycle traffic before the population at large has adopted it as a more consistent mode of transportation.
What is the solution? It makes sense in congested cities to encourage more bicycle traffic (and public transportation) than individual vehicles but how to get people to adopt that so having more resources put toward bicycles doesn't unduly harm vehicle traffic before more people give up vehicles in favor of bikes. Or can that even be a feasible trend?
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
Vancouver did the same thing. The bus drivers hate it because you have the same amount of traffic on fewer lanes, and the bikes did not show up, even though Vancouver is a much more temperate city for bike riders than Denver. Mayor Hancock is doing the same thing in downtown Denver. Converting city streets to bike lanes. Taxi and Uber drivers like it, more time spent in traffic increases their fares. Solutions? Virginia might have hit on one, they had added a $40 one-way toll for a highway into DC. That should encourage biking and carpooling!
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
