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I'm not saying to ban cars, just to de-prioritize them The use case for bicycle-and-similars is way more than the use case for cars specially urban places (also outside urban places)

Cars are the most age discriminatory mode of transport of all: only 18+ and not too old can use it, and most disabled cannot use it. A

Bicycles work to all ages, all abilities.

In your case an ebike, trike (etrike?) or even mobility scooter might be a much lighter, cheaper, scalable option.

Hey why not a self-driving e-scooter? Why does it have to weight 2 tons in the first place?

Bike infrastructure is not only for bicycles: its for trikes, wheelchairs, mobility scooters, ebikes.

Watch:

* Who else benefits from the Dutch cycling infrastructure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSGx3HSjKDo

* 8 to 80, people of all ages cycling in the Netherlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swqaAIkGtpA

Don't fall on the trap of self-driving cars will make our lives better. They won't. Building cities for people first is what will improve our lives.

Watch: How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0

"Corporate culture" has had a downward history everywhere since companies started weaponizing "culture" to demand a one-way loyalty from employees so as to extract more unpaid labor from them.

Would ion engines leave a trace in space signaling alien civilizations our location? We are risking being annihilated by a dark forest strike.

Ok, a bit sci-fi but I had to say it.

Cycle infrastructure needs to be continuous, feel safe to ride, and exist where people actually go to, not near the riverside.

Build them and they will come.

Cycle infra is not only cycle lanes. Cycle lanes are needed only where cars move fast (>30kmh). What is even more important is traffic calming in residential streets. LTNs, modal filters etc. Build for people, not cars.

Is this the media doing disinformation service for the US imperialism, based on flimsy evidence (or fabricated evidence)?

ok I was a bit harsh, I have been watching too much Not Just Bikes/Urban channels and I see too many cars everywhere lol

30k is a good daily ride. Keep it up!

> it is better to cry in a Mercedes than on a bike

Do you perceive bicycle as a poor man's mode of transport?

Rich countries is where everyone can travel by public transport or bicycle (or car). Poor countries is where everyone HAS to travel by car (locked in car dependency)

I see what you are trying to say: its better to cry and have wealth than to cry and not have wealth. But bike=poor, car=rich is not a good analogy. It sends the message bikes/public transport are for loosers, when its not. Well it might be in car-centric societies, but not in more fair societies.

well duh

Lets hope Jevons paradox does not take effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Good intention but car-centric infra is the worst example we can give to our children.

You should teach how to build those streets for people first, bicycles second, public transportation third, cars last.

Build for people not for machines.

Bicycle are all age inclusive, all ability inclusive. Cars is the most discriminatory mode of transport.

Those crosswalks should be continuous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OfBpQgLXUc

The Lively & Liveable Neighbourhoods that are Illegal in Most of North America : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnKIVX968PQ

The Suburbs Are Bleeding America Dry | Climate Town (feat. Not Just Bikes) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfsCniN7Nsc

Bicycle is the least discriminatory private mode of transport: it caters to all ages, almost-all abilities. It give you free exercise, its good for the environment, for the community, for the local economy: small commercial shops benefit from cycle infra.

Private car is space and energy inefficient, and car infra is hostile to cycling and walking.

Build for what you want (walking,cycling,public transport), not for what you have (private car).

Yes its a massive no-brainer. Amazing how we as a society fail to see this.

No. To Fight global warming* we must stop drilling oil and gas.

Fancy futuristic magic tech isn't going to save us.

This sounds like the flying-cars-solves-traffic BS: dark PR funded by the Fossil Fuel industry.

Dark PR talk (regarding the road lobby): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP41Hsr4fMA

* climate change is term coined by Big Oil PR to make global warming sounds less scary -

And with ebikes, you can easily do 20km (with hills) and not sweat too much. And ... you can always take a quick shower at the workplace no?

Cycling is not a tour-de-france style of cycling, most ppl can easily cycle 20kmh without much effort...

And why focus only on commute? Commutes benefit more from public transport.

cycling is optimal for short distances, errand-type of trips: nearby shop, school, pharmacy etc

How far outside central Paris does the cycle infra reach? Are the suburbs still very car-centric?

How far outside central Paris does the cycle infra reach? Are the suburbs still very car-centric and/or hostile bicycles?

The most underrated technology is the bicycle.

It the least discriminatory mode of transport: it caters to all ages, almost-all abilities (1). It give you free exercise, its good for the environment, for the community, for the local economy (small commercial shops benefit from cycle infra, ask notjustbikes and search it)

The reason we dont use the bicycle more often is because cars. Cars monopolized our streets taking most of the space making conditions too hostile for many to cycle. We then built cities (actually bulldozed cities) for the car and now distances are just too big (specially in the US).

Build cities for people not machines.

(1) I am including trikes and wheelchairs, and anything on wheels powered by humans.

Everything is collapsing except bitcoin.

Cars with touchscreens should be banned. End of it. car-regulation is just too soft.

Even better is WFH.

> I do think the US breach of this principle by invading Iraq did a colossal amount of damage

The US has done many many breaches of international law since post-WW2

CC sounds like plastic recycling. A pseudo-solution to maintain the status quo that will take decades for us to realize it does not work.

What might also happen is some sort of "risk compensation": the fossil fuel industry, politicians, and regulators will relax their stance against fossil fuel extraction because "CC takes the CO2 off the atmosphere" - like they did with plastics - and when we notice it, the net emission of CO2 per year will never decrease.

Those are real dangers.

Keep the oil in the ground.

Related: Why Many Cities Suck from Not Just Bikes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4kmDxcfR48

"Traffication: How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It" excellent book on ecological damage caused by traffication.

Some insights:

* traffic noise (soundscape pollution) is actually suspected to be the biggest ecological destructor affecting all levels of life from insects, to birds, to mammals.

* Traffic-related noise accounts for over 1 million healthy years of life lost annually to ill health, disability or early death in the western countries in the WHO European Region. (a)

a) https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/30-03-2011-new-evidence...

Enough of subsidizing fancy tech to for drivers convenience. Taxpayer should not pay for drivers not to have to open their windows. If they can't roll down their windows, then they should not be driving.

Beg buttons (aka crosswalk buttons) in pedestrian-heavy areas should be green to pedestrians, red to drivers by default. Drivers should roll the windows down, and press the beg button and wait for their turn. Cities are for people first, not machines· If they can roll their windows down in drive-ins, they can role to beg for permission to cross.

There is a misconception that innovation comes mainly from the private sector. Its the opposite: innovation comes from the public sector.

"We pretend that the government was at best just in the background creating the basic conditions (skills, infrastructure, basic science). But the truth is that the involvement required massive risk taking along the entire innovation chain: basic research, applied research and early stage financing of companies themselves.”

https://time.com/4089171/mariana-mazzucato/

Screens are part of the problem but the biggest cause is lack of space to be a child, and the biggest culprit is our car-centric urban planning which transformed our streets into car storage space / racing track.

Our streets have become hostile to anything but cars.

Not Just Bikes video on suburbia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlpmxLTxpw