Comments on: Bicycle Infrastructure http://www.dailycyclist.com/2008/12/11/bicycle-infrastructure/ Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:17:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: David Hembrow http://www.dailycyclist.com/2008/12/11/bicycle-infrastructure/comment-page-1/#comment-139 David Hembrow Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:50:48 +0000 http://www.dailycyclist.com/?p=542#comment-139 I should have kept a copy, but I recall some time ago reading something from someone in the council in Groningen (a city a short bike ride from here with the highest cycling rate in the world: 60% of all journeys are by bike) saying that building infrastructure suitable for bikes was a fiscal measure more than an environmental measure. The amount of money that it costs to make conditions good for cyclists is very much smaller than the cost of not doing so. As a result we have expenditure here on cycling infrastructure which sometimes seems endless, and a very high standard of maintenance, but it's actually very easily affordable because they look at the big picture instead of just treating cycling as a bolt on extra cost. A "car economy" makes people poor as well as unhealthy. I should have kept a copy, but I recall some time ago reading something from someone in the council in Groningen (a city a short bike ride from here with the highest cycling rate in the world: 60% of all journeys are by bike) saying that building infrastructure suitable for bikes was a fiscal measure more than an environmental measure.

The amount of money that it costs to make conditions good for cyclists is very much smaller than the cost of not doing so.

As a result we have expenditure here on cycling infrastructure which sometimes seems endless, and a very high standard of maintenance, but it’s actually very easily affordable because they look at the big picture instead of just treating cycling as a bolt on extra cost.

A “car economy” makes people poor as well as unhealthy.

]]> By: Andy in Germany http://www.dailycyclist.com/2008/12/11/bicycle-infrastructure/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Andy in Germany Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:03:48 +0000 http://www.dailycyclist.com/?p=542#comment-135 Let's hpoe the credit crunch and dropping economy put an end to silly ideas like this. When will politicians learn? Making more roads makes more traffic, more traffic hurts more people, more sick people need more care and can work less. Very simple... Let’s hpoe the credit crunch and dropping economy put an end to silly ideas like this. When will politicians learn? Making more roads makes more traffic, more traffic hurts more people, more sick people need more care and can work less. Very simple…

]]> By: cyclingred http://www.dailycyclist.com/2008/12/11/bicycle-infrastructure/comment-page-1/#comment-134 cyclingred Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:08:58 +0000 http://www.dailycyclist.com/?p=542#comment-134 And then you consider that you probably live in one of the most bike friendly places in the United States. Doesn't it just make you green with envy when your read about the bicycling infrastructure in Denmark and The Netherlands? And then you consider that you probably live in one of the most bike friendly places in the United States.

Doesn’t it just make you green with envy when your read about the bicycling infrastructure in Denmark and The Netherlands?

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