The continued rising price of cars and the maintenance costs will eventually wear Americans out. In most US economic centers for most people transportation and housing are the two most expensive costs. The government is not doing much to control housing costs. Thus, people will eventually have to choose between transportation and where to live. Don't expect employers to become generous and give raises so people can drive their cars to work. China has moved from bicycles to cars and the US will go in the reverse.
As that is the safest bike lanes, than how bad is the rest? Those crazy Americans still think that those bike helms will keep them save! As you want more people on a bike, than change the infrastructure by keeping cars out the city center, make roads narrower so less cars can go trough and ad bike lanes. This wat you make that you can travel faster with a bike and come on places where you can't come with cars. It works here, so it will work there also. And please copy it from the Netherlands and don't try it yourself.
I bike to work every day in Minnesota. While the Netherlands has excellent infrastructure in general, there are scary parts. The only place i've ever been hit by a car was in Gouda, South Holland.
"one of the nicest bike routes in the state" (6:04) showing a street for cars with painted bicycles stuck to the wrong side of parked cars. Painted bicycles do nothing to promote or protect cyclists. Sticking a bicycle route next to parking spaces for cars will only ensure that it's even more dangerous for cyclists when people will open their car doors to get out of their vehicles! And that's the "nicest bike route" of the entire state?!?
here you see a safer bike lane than in france , in france it's skinny , so we can't pass elsewhere than the 'door zone' in paris , where i live , there is a bike lane where you ride in passenger door zone at right and a little crop zone when pedestrian want to cross the road , they wait on the baie lane and when a passenger (child oftenly) open the door , you're forced to stop ..... si this bike lane is safety as you can see ;) (sorry for the bad english a hope you'll understand what i told ! )
I live in the Netherlands. I encourage this of course, but... well... Minnesota still has a long bike path go. Yet every journey starts with a first step.
If was safe and convenient linked to public transit, that was also safe and ran frequently , I would use that mostly, except for work , when I carry my tools. Love the freedom and how much better than driving.
I lived in chicago for 8 years without a car and on my bicycle. Ive moved to Hong Kong where bicycling is strictly a recreational event on paved bike paths but not on streets as it is a car city....I wish it would change
I would like you to consider: they are scheduled to start building a railroad tunnel under Silicon Valley that will cost 10's of millions of dollars. This will be to expand growth in the Valley cities destroying the environment of the area. Meanwhile, most of the cities from which these people would be commuting have large industrial areas that are largely empty. In my own town I worked at five high tech companies that either closed not to be replaced or moved to Silicon Valley to be supposedly in the hotbed of high tech development. If there is one thing that the pandemic taught us it is that there is no such thing as a hotbed. If high tech firms were more localized commuting short distances via bicycle would be far more practical and the cheaper transportation costs would allow more people to afford housing vastly improving the homeless problem. If I can work from home for a Baltimore company which is an entirely impractical means of high tech development, why do you suppose Silicon Valley firms cannot get the message that the entire San Francisco Bay area shouldn't be their center?
I've kind of been binge watching pro-cycling documentaries of various sorts for months, and although this particular one does not have anything I haven't heard before, It is nonetheless heartwarming to see a polite gent in a beige jacket wearing a bright orange cycle badge fight the good fight That's the kind of guy we want on our team
My town has hundreds of no cycling signs. This gives me a feeling that cycling is a bad thing and must be stopped. I have not seen one, no car or no pedestrian sign.
Same hear! I ran an errand last night (cold January night in the dark) and every single cyclist I passed was a pre-driving age youth and only one had lights. It's for those vulnerable groups I most long for increased road safety for; but we all benefit in the process ❤️
Bicycles are a great thing. I don't think they should replace cars tho. I mean - good luck trying to carry a weight. Rather, they should replace public transporting (which will never work).
@@viseberg8527 It is MUCH colder in Minnesota in the winter months tho. Copenhagen's average low in January is -0.7C, Minneapolis's is -13.6C. Winter in Copenhagen is more like winter in Atlanta than winter in Minneapolis.
