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Parisians Are Choosing Bikes Over Cars. Will New Yorkers Do That, Too? - The New York Times (free article) (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Wahots@pawb.social to c/bicycles@lemmy.ca

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Salivating for mid-block crosswalks, more armored bike lanes, daylit intersections, and more on the west coast, too.

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[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

as long as it's convenient

That's the big caveat.

In my city, even driving on the congested streets during rush hour, it took my wife 35-40 min to get to her old job by car, or almost 2 hours by bus.

It's no wonder fewer people take the bus when those are the choices you are faced with.

[–] toaster@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

Certainly! And that's the problem. We've been spending billions to expand highways and add new highways through cities, while chronically under-funding public transit and designing roads that are unsafe to cyclists and pedestrians. As cities continue to grow, adding highway lanes counterintuitively increases traffic due to induced and latent demand, when the most people will be moved by public transit, walking and bicycling. The only cure to traffic is viable alternatives to driving.