Stringbike: Benefits (2020)

Re:Stringbike: Benefits (2020) by fanf2 on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @06:20PM (#32419143)

Roads were originally paved for bicycles, before cars. https://www.cyclinguk.org/cycle/roads-built-cars https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2013/apr/1... https://roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/

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Re:Stringbike: Benefits (2020) by googlryas on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @09:22PM (#32420515)

Maybe some roads somewhere were built for bicyclists, but I don't think you can generally say that when there are literally 6000 year old paved roads leading to Ur. Horse drawn carriages and wagons would benefit from roads and were probably much more common and important to business/transport than bicycles until the 20th century.

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Re:Stringbike: Benefits (2020) by stouset on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @09:51PM (#32420701)

And what percentage of roads paved today do you suspect were done so primarily for the benefit of bicyclists?

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