I know. FuckCars in general is a purity contest that doesn’t understand how certain things work. Cars are here to stay in our society for a variety of reasons, but that doesn’t mean all our decisions for city planning have to center around them.
My city has less than 5% of people commuting by bike, and around 25% work from home. These numbers seem roughly typical of US cities. If we got 20% of people commuting by bike while keeping the work from home number, that would be transformative. That’s a huge number of cars off the road. Basically like adding a whole lane of traffic, but without the induced demand problems.
I know. FuckCars in general is a purity contest that doesn’t understand how certain things work. Cars are here to stay in our society for a variety of reasons, but that doesn’t mean all our decisions for city planning have to center around them.
My city has less than 5% of people commuting by bike, and around 25% work from home. These numbers seem roughly typical of US cities. If we got 20% of people commuting by bike while keeping the work from home number, that would be transformative. That’s a huge number of cars off the road. Basically like adding a whole lane of traffic, but without the induced demand problems.