A couple of interesting blogs about the relative space taken up by people, bicycles and cars.
Firstly, the Cycling embassy of Great Britain has a good post on use of public space in Amsterdam. Look at the photos and weep.
Question: Why does no-one in Amsterdam wear a helmet?
Question: Would you prefer to cycle in US with a helmet or Amsterdam without?
A more typical UK street.
The Munster Classic Shot
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carltonreid/
See more at Munster’s Waste of Space Photos
Car Parking Space and Bike Racks
A car park space in Seattle
Car Bike Rack in Dublin. Shame no-ones using it. It can accommodate ten bicycles in the space of one car:
Trailers and Cars
or walk around town like this
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Bike Racks and Bike parking
Events such as Skyrides can, I believe, be very helpful as a bit of ‘people power’ where city centre streets are handed over to cyclists for a day.
We have been on the London Skyrides for the last 3 years and, as a family, we have thoroughly enjoyed it! Even my wife hired a Boris Bike last year to join in. Understandably the London Skyride didn’t take place this year because of the Olympics – even my children were disappointed.
It’s this kind of event with the sheer number of cyclists taking part that gives a strong message about the viability of designing transport networks to be more cycle friendly. It makes people sit up and take notice. It makes non-cyclists have a go and I’m sure there must be a good knock-on effect arising from this, surely, there must be……….?
nice to hear