On 3/1/19 10:24 pm, Roger Merriman wrote:
Frank Krygowski wrote:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ms/2319972002/

- Frank Krygowski


How well connected are they? My commute to work has some fairly old and
narrow cycle paths built alongside the by pass, most of the time I don’t
see another cyclist as for most part. It makes sense for me but very few
others.

Yet closer to home routes that are much better connected are unsurprisingly
much busier.


This is one of the variables and there are so many of them.

Interestingly, weather doesn't seem to dissuade people in Denmark. They
wear appropriate clothing and I think the distances they travel by
bicycle is not typically very far.

They have slowly choked out the amenity of driving and replaced it with
cycling.

I don't think it is possible to make driving and cycling simultaneously
amenable, and have people choose to cycle in great numbers.

I suspect that most USian cities still cater heavily for driving, while
some have a bit of cycling specific infrastructure tacked on. That
situation will hardly make a measurable difference.

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JS