'Free E-Bikes for Everyone!' so Jay Caspian Kang writes in today's 'New York Times'
11-22-21, 10:27 PM
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'Free E-Bikes for Everyone!' so Jay Caspian Kang writes in today's 'New York Times'
'We're in the middle of a climate crisis. We need big ideas.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/o...s-climate.html
You can right-click on the link, save the file, read the local copy. He describes Luud Schimmelpennink's 'White Bicycle Plan': free bicycles in Netherlands in 1965 - new to me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/o...s-climate.html
You can right-click on the link, save the file, read the local copy. He describes Luud Schimmelpennink's 'White Bicycle Plan': free bicycles in Netherlands in 1965 - new to me.
11-23-21, 07:48 AM
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That's putting the horse before the infrastructure..
In one study, only 10% of people were willing to ride a bike the way things are. To get most riding, we've got to make like the Netherlands.
Don't get me wrong, I would like to get a better ebike, and love the idea of a generous rebate to help make it happen. But where we should prob put our effort is in a carrot and stick approach to cycling infrastructure.
In one study, only 10% of people were willing to ride a bike the way things are. To get most riding, we've got to make like the Netherlands.
Don't get me wrong, I would like to get a better ebike, and love the idea of a generous rebate to help make it happen. But where we should prob put our effort is in a carrot and stick approach to cycling infrastructure.
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That's putting the horse before the infrastructure..
In one study, only 10% of people were willing to ride a bike the way things are. To get most riding, we've got to make like the Netherlands.
Don't get me wrong, I would like to get a better ebike, and love the idea of a generous rebate to help make it happen. But where we should prob put our effort is in a carrot and stick approach to cycling infrastructure.
In one study, only 10% of people were willing to ride a bike the way things are. To get most riding, we've got to make like the Netherlands.
Don't get me wrong, I would like to get a better ebike, and love the idea of a generous rebate to help make it happen. But where we should prob put our effort is in a carrot and stick approach to cycling infrastructure.
there before. Families getting exercise, and people who no longer want to be on public transit using e-bikes to get around. So in a weird way, something good has come from Covid - more folks on bikes. Unfortunately, many don't understand bike
etiquette and are giving cyclists an even worse reputation unintentionally. So there's that. But to really make a massive change we need to create safer places to ride, safer routes to work centers, because that's what will ensure people making that change.
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