Re:Large areas of London to be made car-free as lockdown eased
by gipp on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:01AM
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I know this is a drop in the bucket, but FWIW in Brooklyn I've been seeing easily 3-4x the normal bike traffic, and bike shops consistently have long lines outside all day, every day. I've personally bought an e-bike to commute with once I can get back to the office. Hopefully this might be kind of a hinge moment for bikes in the city? Or maybe it just snaps back to normal in a couple months, who knows.
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Re:Large areas of London to be made car-free as lockdown eased
by akgerber on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:03AM
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Hopefully it will be a huge moment, but without safe bike infrastructure (of which car-free or local-car-access-only areas are the best type) the traffic that comes roaring back will scare many new cyclists away.
The city's failure to plan is resulting in many people buying cars — even though it is physically impossible for everyone in central neighborhoods to buy cars.
Re:Large areas of London to be made car-free as lockdown eased
by Shounak on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:19AM
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Where I live near downtown Atlanta I'm also seeing 3-4x the normal bike traffic. We don't have very good bike lanes here so most cyclists are just riding in traffic or on sidewalks.
It feels like Atlanta wants to bike so badly; we just don't have the built infrastructure yet.