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I’m really sorry to tell you this, but cycling infrastructure actually doesn’t improve health, because statistics on bicycle usage doesn’t show any notable increases with or without biking infrastructure.

First reason, at least in the north, is cause it’s below zero for half the year.

Second reason is cause, at least in the south, cause it’s fucking hot

Third reason is cause most of us are incredibly lazy.

Do you have sources that measure your other purported benefits? By source, I mean actual measured sources in a study. Not “it’s true because this article also states it, but does so with bad anecdotes”

I’m not against reducing cars on the road. I am against doing it wrong though.



https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5858726/

https://cyclingincities.spph.ubc.ca/injuries/the-bice-study/

https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-06...

With the skimming of abstracts, that took < 5 minutes from opening google to typing this. Three will suffice, I trust? I don't have hours to read abstracts for the other fifty.

>at least in the north, is cause it’s below zero for half the year.

Oh, okay, in the north. If you're American, I'm currently north of you unless you happen to be in Alaska, and I bike 9-10 months a year, basically until it gets below zero. Someone forgot to tell Canadians it's below zero here for half the year :)




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