Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities

Re:Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching... by fooker on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @07:55PM (#26733191)

Any place with a seasonal temperature variation needs significant road repairs every 2-3 years, if not more often.

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Re:Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching... by yardie on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @08:34PM (#26733556)

Those are potholes. A little 2-crew job. We're talking about roadwear. Where the actual asphalt grinds down to the expose the substrate. And in particularly bad cases the substrate breaks down and the road develops ruts. Potholes are a few hundred dollars in repair, roadwear is tens of thousands.

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Re:Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching... by adrianN on Thursday April 08, 2021 @01:54AM (#26735517)

The bike lanes in my city are often left basically unmaintained since the seventies and are still usable. They are of course not as nice as freshly paved.

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Re:Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching... by avidiax on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @08:15PM (#26733366)

Is that because of the cracks formed by heavy vehicles?

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