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Oxford Professor: Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
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this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
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That's great if the city can rezone to make the city bikeable/walkable. You can't just add bike lanes or a path to an existing city designed around cars and expect it to make a change. Things are too far apart for people to just switch transit methods from cars. Having to bike 5 miles to various stores all the time isn't viable.
At least where I live, the city centre was built and designed around walking and public transit, but then the city destroyed those streets to make way for cars. If the city were to reverse those changes and build back areas designed for walking and cycling, it would result in a much better city centre, without any drastic restructuring.
Yeah. My city put in bike lanes literally everywhere and I never see anyone on them. They still have to cross traffic all over the place so they’re really not much safer.
On the other hand, there are some bike paths that were put in next to the old railroad. These rarely cross traffic and they have people riding them all the time.