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Re:Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching... by luckylion on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:10PM (#26729577)
> The issue is taking away even a tiny fraction of car space basically triggers some kind of political road rage.

How do you take "a tiny fraction" away from a street that has one lane in each direction to build a dedicated bike lane? Make it a one-way street and just kill traffic? It's not as simple as you make it out to be. Don't infer motivations, I don't own a car and ride my bike everywhere.

It's mostly a money issue, at least where I live. That part of the budget is spent on "climate managers" (for a city of 20k) instead of improving bike infrastructure.

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Re:Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching... by estebank on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:14PM (#26729646)
In a significant portion of the US "high density" looks like this:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7474901,-122.4878233,3a,75y,...

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Re:Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching... by luckylion on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:27PM (#26729818)
And that looks trivial to work with. I'm from Europe where most towns have grown very organically over centuries, there are fewer multi-lane streets (and it's essentially unheard of in residential areas) and it's crowded. Quite a few people would welcome better bike infrastructure over here, but it's hard to do. The opposite seems to be true in the US.
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Re:Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching... by megablast on Thursday April 08, 2021 @01:56AM (#26735530)
One way streets.

Killing traffic is good.

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