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

Re:Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching... by Someone on Thursday April 08, 2021 @03:12AM (#26735956)

Even more so when combined with reducing the number of cars, which adding a bike lane can easily do.

If you replace 3 car lanes with n cars/lane/hour by 2 car lanes plus a bicycle lane, car traffic/lane/hour goes down as soon as you have over n cyclists/hour on that bike lane. At that density, that bike lane looks empty (https://www.boredpanda.com/space-required-to-transport-60-pe...)

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Re:Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching... by adamcstephens on Thursday April 08, 2021 @08:13AM (#26737770)

I couldn’t find it in a quick search, but there aren’t videos comparing similar groups getting going from stopped. Because of the delay between cars getting going it takes significantly longer for an equivalent number of cars to move through a light than the bikes.

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