How to Make U.S. Cities More Bike-Friendly | One Small Step
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- Since COVID-19 there has been a surge in interest in biking. But just because people are now jumping on bikes, doesn’t mean cities and towns are bike-friendly enough. On this One Small Step, Lucy takes a deep dive into how we can make the U.S. more bike-friendly. This episode is sponsored by Brita.
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The combination of bored Americans stuck in their homes as well as a fear of public transportation’s safety led to a shortage of bikes in the U.S. This interest in biking is great for the climate because biking is a virtually carbon-free way to get around. But just because people are now jumping on bikes, doesn’t mean cities and towns are ready to handle the influx of riders.
To find out how the United States can be more bike-friendly, Lucy connects with biking advocate Doug Gordon, and Shabazz Stuart the founder of Oonee, a bike parking start-up.
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"We don't question...that there will be a sidewalk outside". Unfortunately despite living in a city, I still question this. I walked to work for over a year and it was TERRIFYING. The sidewalk randomly disappears, people in cars scream at pedestrians, people cut pedestrians off when they have the walk sign to cross...
Biking would be a giant leap for my city.
It's not only making bicycle infrastructure which I've seen first hand in my home town in Colorado done over a decade ago but the gold standard in the Netherlands available. But also need to punish bad human behavior against cyclists and pedestrians with $5000 fines and jail time for striking individuals.
@@drooooo1 yeah no, people cant afford that, 500 dollars is more reasonable, bad enough to incentive good behavior but not so high you can make someone homeless
@@openlink9958 of course these fines need be be adjusted based on the persons income. an upper bound for wealthy people sounds totally fine to me :)
True. I was wondering the same thing. Sidewalks is a luxury outside cities like NYC.
In Fayetteville where I'm at, they made a big deal about putting in more sidewalk. Although they exist in many places, they don't exist everywhere. And forget about bike infrastructure. This is car central.
@@qolspony I agree a lot of times the sidewalks disappear in a city or even a suburban
I'm biking more now, it is a win-win, I exercise and stay healthier, I spend less in gas, but specially I reduce the production of co2. 🌏
Great episode as always Lucy ☺️ I used to be an avid cyclist 🚴♂️ but yeah biking in a city that’s not built for it is a really bummer
The city might not be built for bikes but you can be sure theres a bike made for that city, ifnthe riads arent set up for bikers take paths or just off the road in general, they have great hybrid commuters that take on all kinds of surfaces without being full mountain bikes
@@mattball420 wherever you live sounds awesome
This is a great idea. I'm going to send this video to our mayor. Where I live bicycles have increased tremendously. Plus bicycling is also good exercise, uses no gas, and is good for the environment.
A better one for politicians is "Do Your Buses Get Stuck in Traffic? Traffic solutions & the Downs-Thomson Paradox" by Not Just Bikes.
@@Dark__Thoughts our town has made bike lanes for those traveling on bikes. The only issue we have with riders on bicycles is when 20 to 50 of them are up in the early hours on Saturday and Sunday taking up the road. Some bicycle club that even competes in tours is what they call them.
Make sure to also watch 'notjustbikes' and 'DutchBicycle'.
They go in depth on the Dutch bicycle culture.
In the United States, you go somewhere to cycle. In the Netherlands, you cycle to go somewhere.
Please check out NotJustBikes as this is just scratching the surface
haha good luck with that
Bicycles, ebikes and escooters are great options for last mile, short distance travel.
Cities need to do more to encourage people to ride bicycles by providing safe, protected bike lanes and trails. Every adult and child should own a bicycle and ride it regularly. Bicycles are healthy exercise and fossil fuels free transportation. Electric bicycles are bringing many older adults back to cycling. Ride to work, ride to school or ride for fun.
first thing, we need to remove single-family zoning laws on housing if we want to make progress.
@@halfvolley11 It's not a one or the other situation. You can advocate and push for both at the same time, and indeed should.
@@kostiemuirhead8187 sure thing
@@halfvolley11 how about no.
@@TheBusttheboss Single-family zoning does not mean all houses will be converted to apartment/condo buildings. It means whoever wants to sell their home to a developer has the choice to do so - which is what capitalism is all about. Zoning is COMMUNISM.
We also need to pay suburban home owners pay for the infrastructure, because most suburbs in US are subsidized
Great video! I can approve this as a Dutchie. We are able to use our bike everywhere on seperate bike lanes. It takes less parking space and it is more healthy so I hope that America will continue this trend!
When you compared Netherlands with US on cycling, I don't know why but I remembered another comparison too😂. US should use less toilet paper too😅!
stay in your country dutchie
the USA hasnt even begun that trend.
@@travisgoesthere Austin Texas has some bicycle paths model after the Netherlands.
Boston as well, although shockingly not as good as Austin.
There's a city in California, I can't remember the name, but the mayor is all about cycling infrastructure.
So yeah, it's mostly a major cities in agonizingly slow but it's happening.
@@Kevin15047 lol
I have only been 3 times in the states. And from my time in Los Angles I can say that sidewalks are not everywhere, sure New York was different, but I would not take a sidewalk for granted.
I have also seen a documentation about infrastructure in the USA where someone needed to take his car for a 5 mile ride to reach a supermarket that was less then a mile away (air distance) since the direct connection was cut by a road with no chance to cross it.
Bicycles and sidewalks don't mix unless it's in a rural area with no pedestrians
Support local bike shops
This is the way
Ride
My town doesn’t even have continuous sidewalks. They often go for short stretches in front of buildings and just abruptly end at the property line.
Same. It seems that the local governments, where I live, require the developer to pour a sidewalk. So, if there is no building, residential or commercial, there is no sidewalk. When there is a sidewalk, it seems to be hijacked as a parking spot for utility crews.
Don't know why everyone's talking about sidewalks cuz it's illegal to ride on the sidewalk unless you're under the age of 12 in almost every state
really glad to see people trying to make America more bike-friendly. I'm fortunate to have a network of bike paths where I live (southeast Michigan) and hope to see this movement grow at a faster rate.
I bought an Electra Townie electric assist bicycle in March 2022 as an alternative means of transportation. I don't always use the electric assist function, but I am glad it is there when I want it. My alternate is now my main. I only drive my truck if my wife and I have to go somewhere together or if the weather is not favorable. I also lost 36 pounds in four months.
I used skateboard for travel because it eliminates the issue with parking. You simply hold onto it on hand.
Started biking NYC about two months ago. Been loving it. Though I will say NY really stretches the definition of a bike lane sometimes
Great episode, I love what you do!
I don't own a car, but I usually prefer to walk instead of using my bike, because there's nowhere to park them! So even if it's faster and more efficient, it becomes a hassle to find a safe spot to leave it when going shopping.
My city have greatly improved bike lanes in the recent years, but still have a lot of work to do regarding parking. Until then, I'll continue walking!
Buy a collapsible bike - like a Brompton. There is no need to lock it, because you take it with you wherever you go! Attach a bag to it, and it turns into your rolling shopping bag!
I just walk into supermarkets with my bike and fill my panniers with groceries and self checkout. No worker cares to stop me
I thinking biking is awesome especially if your town is small enough to use it as a mode of transportation. Growing up, my biggest issue though was the safety of my bike if I chained it somewhere. I'd be afraid of someone stealing it. I had a coworker, a couple of years ago, chain his bike on a tall pole and yet someone still managed to steal it and I ended up driving him home that night. If they're gonna have bike parking places, be it an open one or the enclosed one, I think there should be a security camera pointing towards it at all times to better guarantee safety.
This is Shabazz, one of the folks featured in the video. The station that you saw is locked (only folks that are members can enter) and there is a security camera inside that is on at all times. Totally agree with you that a security camera adds a nice layer of additional protection.
@@shabazzstuart7977 that's awesome! I'm not from NYC but from Rochester, NY (Eastside). It's nice to see how proactive NYC is. Keep up the great work. 😁👍
I use my bike to go to the train station or just for food shopping etc....
But it's very safe here in the the "outer suburbs" (nearly country side), so a regular lock is enough.
Bike : $500 initial investment
Maintenance $100/yr
Car : $22000
Insurance $200 per month
Maintenance $113 per month
Petrol $154
Registration tax etc $12
Parking : depends but still quite alot
You do the math
What's the cost of time traveling or risk of crime in some neighborhoods? The U.S. has much bigger problems than just the infrastructure
Pedaling past a gas station, priceless.
Bikes did get popular during those couple of years during the 2008 recession. The bike industry has often had banner years during recessions. Combination of people using bikes for transportation or buying a bike for recreation because you couldnt afford a big vacation trip or gym membership.
The boom now is mainly families adding biking to their recreation menu, since so many of their other options are unavailable.
Love that bikes are now a thing but now we have to get the crazy drivers off the street
You dont have to as long as there is safe cycling infrastructure. Raised kerbs or barriers that separate cycling lanes. Less lanes for cars ect
The drivers aren't the problem, the car-centric infrastructure is the problem
first thing, we need to remove single-family zoning laws on housing if we want to make progress.
remove the power from drivers
How about the 3X3 pedestrian city super block like in Barcelona Spain? I bet its part of the solution for existing infrastructure.
Thank you so much Lucy Bigger for bringing such a valuable information.
This is what going all around the world.
I too bought one last week.
Kerala,India
"We don't question when we leave an apartment that there's going to be a sidewalk outside".
Funny enough, many streets in Canada don't even have a sidewalk or only one side of the street has a sidewalk :/
Thank God for covid! I fell in love with cycling a few months after covid happened and had bought myself an ebike. Now I'm getting another one with a little more power.
First time seeing your channel. Good report. The irony is that congress is considering a 30%, up to $1500 tax credit to get an e-bike. But the problem isn't unaffordable e-bikes, it's lack of safe and secure bike infrastructure. This bill is typical of how not to solve a problem but waste tax payer money. That money would be far better spent and encourage more biking if it were devoted to bike centered infrastructure across America.
Which comes first: 🐔🔄🐣?
Of course we need public infrastructure first, but USA is a capitalistic corporate kleptocracy. Corporations own US Congress. Corporate mantra: PRIVATIZE PROFITS & SOCIALIZE LOSSES. They rather steal your money, by funneling it into unaudited expenses - like military "top secret" things! Then they claim ..."There is no money for public infrastructure!" CORPORATIONS ALWAYS PRIORITIZE PROFITS FIRST!
In order to improve cycling safety, you can't just change the infrastructure, you need to change the culture. The more people you have on bikes, the more the need comes to improve infrastructure.
You also shouldn't just close down all streets to build cycling infrastructure, you should change the 'standard' way of building roads, and then when a road needs to be renewed anyway, then implement cycling infrastructure.
It will take decades, but it is the cheapest way to do it.
I once saw a video in the UK, where they had made a Dutch design roundabout with priority for cyclists. It was extremely dangerous, as car drives just refused to give priority. In the Netherlands, roundabouts like that improve safety, because the culture matches the design.
A parking space for about 20 bikes. How cute. Oh well... you gotta start somewhere. (yeah I'm Dutch)
I'm trying to think of a public place with that little bike parking, but can't.
Could yall bring one of those giant bicycle parking garage to the US?
Thanks for this video. I been thinking about biking.
Research it first by taking a walk around your routes and taking videos to review with a avid bicyclist to get good advice. Mount large reflective pieces on important areas of your bike and on yourself too. Lights front, sides, rear and on your body so everybody will see you especially people with poor vision.
As someone who enjoys cycling i can tell you in more rural areas cars are a necessity considering its a 50 mile round trip just to go to Wal-Mart if I lived in town or a slightly bigger city I would probably ride my bike around town....until then I'm gonna stick my local mountain bike trails
Amazing episode! All we use for our service business is cargo bikes and trailers. We have saved tens of thousands of dollars and have had tons of fun 💯
That's pretty cool! Biking to get around is one of the things I've really missed from the Netherlands
The Netherlands is also a very safe country when it comes to crime compared to the U.S.
@@r.d.9399 It depends on the areas
I love New York and want to live there for at least 1 year
3:25 thats 20 bicycles parked up there and it has only used up a tiny fraction of space compared to massive cars parking
Bicycles are a great local transportation option. Cities need to do more to encourage people to ride bicycles safely. Safe, protected bike lanes and trails are needed to encourage more older adults and children to ride bicycles or scooters. Ebikes are bringing many older adults back to cycling. Healthy exercise, fossil fuels free transportation and great for social distancing. Every adult and child should own a bicycle and ride it regularly.
Great piece, Lucy!
I am living in Netherlands for long time and just got a new bike during pandemic, then I feel more freedom compare with convertible car.
We need bike security everywhere. Small towns to large towns. We also need to have laws obedience and have people held to the law.
I wish south Florida was more bike friendly.
ouuuuu , yes , bring a few Oonee pods to Los Angeles !
Can you get fenders for this bike?
I'm like this your plan I am very happy for this time
Getting the USA to be like Europe in terms of bicycling will be a challenge. Americans love their auto's.
Not all Americans love just their cars. I love bicycling too . Maybe many do because They don’t know any differently.
Some call it love, I'd call it Stockholm syndrome.
That's not true we don't have sidewalks everywhere in the USA. But I get your point.
I love this channel
The Oonee looks like a great idea, but how can those of us with no smart phone use it?
free to anyone with a phone. How is that secure may aswell be on the street parking for the securiy it provides. tatal waste of moneey
Canada Edmonton where I live there are pathways so I don’t get killed.
great video.Mac UK
"We don't question that when we leave our apartments that there's going to be sidewalk outside..." lol, he needs to travel more 😂
Good job
I would love to have Ooneepods in Chicago! 🔐🚲💚
is it just me or is it bugging you that the guests speakers guitar bridge is crocked
Charge drivers when they kill us!
Biking in the U.S. right now is extremely dangerous. Not just from cars. We have so many dangerous crime ridden neighborhoods in the U.S. its hard to know where not to go.
I ride a bicycle but I never owned a cellphone
I'm watching this from The Netherlands and I'm wondering: why is this a thing in the USA, not to bike? Because everyone does it here in Holland. It's cheaper, easier and people are more mobile. Even disabled people, with their handbikes and wheelchairs, use these. I really do not get it why the USA has not caught up with this.
Mainly because most here in the U.S. are very lazy!!! Also, most of our local "leaders" do not have a clue!
@@williamsaloka9043 lazy? Many bikes in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 have gears on them, which makes them way easier to drive. There are people/students who drive 30 km by bike to uni and back. It doesn’t make them tired at all
@@williamsaloka9043 secondly: those local leader need to get their priorities straight. And this is coming from local political leader in The Netherlands 🇳🇱 If cycling policies are not made in place by local politicians, then they are gone after the next election-cycle. It truly is as simple as that 🤷♂️
@@jaspermauriceoenema3624 YEAH, LAZY is exactly what I said. We (U.S.) have not advanced much since Henry Ford started polluting everything. It's going to be decades for us to catch up to more modern times, as far as transportation goes...
We've come a ways = )
I see that the train company in my country trying to set up enclosed bike parking houses but they charge about 5 USD for 30 days. It doesn't work as pointed out in the video. Almost noone uses the option, and rather lock the bile outside in regular bike racks. Make it free!
in my country at most trainstations have large underground bicycleparking garages with first day for free, and the trainstations themself have rentable bicycles
That's awesome how the bike parking station is free to use... however, I wonder if this will make it easier for thieves to gain access
you better preach , 5:50 !
How is all the data collected? How to they know the number or cyclists and commutes people make?
Stuart is a genius
Lots of love and positivity from India. XOXO.
Is it me or she could play a yonger version of Charlotte from Dark?
Shabazz Stewart is a genius
Come on NYC! So much potential here yet so much car-centrism
Video Title - Biking took off in the US during Covid-19: Here's Why
Presenter - "How we make the US more bike friendly!"
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I stopped the video and started reading comments the moment she said that.
As a Dutchie seeing no bicycle infrastructure is strange. I can bike to work on just protected bicycle lanes. Even a roundabout for just bicycles. You start to see an influx of young people not even wanting their own car. You can safely bike to things nearby, public transport is good so longer distances are also covered, for the few times a car is needed you can just rent it or use a car sharing service. I wouldn't be surprised if roads start disappearing to make neighborhoods for people instead of cars. Not parking but a park in front of your house.
Going to the US or Canada is like going back in time 20 years in the Netherlands before all of your protected bike infrastructure was around
@@GustSergeant 26 years ago, there was around 17,000 km of cycling path, which equates to 1.1 meters of cycling path for every inhabitant (15.5mil). 2 years ago, there was 37,000 km of cycling path, which equates to 2.1 meters of cycling path for every inhabitant (17.5mil). I believe this may even exclude bike lanes. So it doubled, but it was still a lot. Considering most bicycles are 1.9 meters long and most cycling paths are broad enough to allow at least two people cycling aside of one another (and oftentimes people in opposite direction), 20 years ago, the entire population of 15.5+ million people could practically already be cycling on cycling paths at the same time. In the 1970s, our infrastructure wasn't so different from that in the US/Canada, but the cycling infrastructure was already well-established in the late 1990s on a national level.
Meanwhile, in Florida, your house is located on a six-lane highway.
It's just not about bicycle. The sprawling suburbs in North America, makes it quite impossible to bike, even though the city create new bicycle infrastructures. Who in a sane mind would bike 5 miles in a hot summer days to go to the nearest coffee shop or buy something from the grocery store? It's a starts with a proper town planning.
Well you can debate the sane mind part but I would. Rain, heat, snow, I'll ride in all of it.
I think there's a pretty easy solution in a lot of cases. Suburbs are often purposefully laid out in meandering loops. So there should be mixed use trails that cut through that and create a direct route to civilization accessible only to people walking, rolling, or cycling.
Since the early car-production began, there have every year been produced more bicycles than cars.
First in the two latest decades modern bicycle-infrastructure has grown at a international level.
Cycle-infrastructure had become a billion-money industry. Investment in cycle-infrastructure pays back after short time, and is a plus-investment.
It is only a very little minimum of investment compare to motor-roads and highways for only cars.
So it is a good business, not only for the industry, but for the society, all included.
Even that bicycle infrastructure had become granted in city-planning around the Earth, there is still much to do.
So, it is a very positive side-effect of the pandemic, the many new cycle-paths, focus on the benefit from cycling, and good and safe conditions.
Well, many cities make their own local experiences, to normalize cycle-traffic, in Lima traffic-police noted and fined 80 motorbikes on the new cyclepath, in one day, (video)
I am 66, since I was six year old I'd cycled all over Copenhagen, seen the development, visited 80 countries hundreds of the biggest cities, with or without bicycle. In 2004 I held a exhibition at the CPH townhal, 'The Modern Transport Structure',
Toke part in the CPH city-election, Cykel Logisk Institut, 01, 05 and 09, (CPH CycleMayor Holger the 1'st )
Not so many votings, but doubled the cycle-budget many times, resulted in international attention.
When I was in NY, in 91, with my cycle, I'd only saw very few and single cyclists, no cyclepaths.
Good morning!
intense
3:10 Casey?
I'm all about biking, I have no problem wanting to reduce NOX etc., but CO2 does not drive temperature.
It does. You can easily prove this through an experiment at home.
As natural as walking? Huh, can't walk anywhere in US.
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👍👍
It can't be done where I live in Pittsburgh unless you were to flat out eliminate automobile routes. The way the communities developed when Pittsburgh was growing it was like packing a can of sardines. Pittsburgh urban areas and suburbs are never going to be bike friendly with the type of terrain around it. It's not a bad place to live but once I retire I am moving somewhere else because I don't want to own a car because they are to expensive to own and operate. It would be cheaper to have delivery of everything I need or use a bike for the short errands.
🙌🙌🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲
I love 💕 cycling
How do Bikers fair in the Winter Months ????? Like Feburary brrrrr
Take the temperature outside and add about 15 degrees, then dress for that temperature. That is about the difference to keep you from sweating under your clothes while cycling, taking into account windchill.
It can depend on your climate, typical cycling distance, and personal preference. I live in the mid-Atlantic area in USA, and you can really bike year round here. I bike to/from work 4 miles each way. In winter, I have a scarf, wind block gloves, a longer coat, and sometimes goggles if the wind kicks up or there’s freezing rain. As long as the roads aren’t too icy or blocked with snow, I’ll bike.
You take a shuttle bus! Weather permitting, bike only from house to bus stop.
I live in Massachusetts and it's fine. You see there's this great new invention called a coat. And it keeps you warm when you're outside during winter. What will they think of next?
And bikes with covers more electric vehicles but bike paths as well
I love the tendencies of the west towards bike friendlyness, however, I must say that bike hotels seems like a scammy operation. These very secure structures seems to not pay for themselves, so the city needs to subsidize them. When parking along any fixed structure a lock can fit around makes your bike safe for free, I dont think these things will make any huge impact. Use the money on simple bike stands, more bike roads, and increase biker safety, and when these things are solved use the money to meet the storage requests
ONE small step is MORE than no try. but you must keep up and not give it up !
Here in the U.S.A. we are still living like hot-rod idiots. People here use their cars to pick up a pizza down the street!!!! You wanna see fat out-of-shape people?? come to the U.S. and just look around, It's very sad and backwards. NOT a bike-friendly country.... My Wife always asks me if I had a good ride when I get home from a run. I always say,, "I'm still alive, so it was a good ride!!"
cycling infrastructure doesnt just benefit cyclists, it also benefits all forms of pev's as well. a form of transportation growing rapidly.
anyways man, the further we go from car only the better.
Upgrade the USA federal civil engineering guideline big-book to differentiate between streets, roads, & freeways. Currently there is no differentiation for city civil engineers, so they design every motorway for pure safe speed. This high-speed design eats up motorway width that could otherwise be devoted to separate veloways. Getting the federal guidelines upgraded is step #1.
A cycling friend hates when people say "Be safe" when he starts a ride. He says "I'm cycling, it's impossible to be safe". I'm worried about new cyclist not understanding the dangers.
The most dangerous part of cycling are the bad drivers who make it dangerous for pedestrians and other drivers too. It would be more appropriate to remind all drivers to drive carefully.
@@georgeemil3618 I've been to a friend's funeral who was killed by a car in the bike lane. Don't bet your life on drivers being better drivers
My bike is not carbon-free. 😅
I am Indian person my from Agra
Is no one going to mention her last name?
The security is the number one reason I don't bike.
I'm lucy biggers, but this is one small step
How is bicycling black or white thing.
It's about people going to work and school go to a bar or friends and in the worst case baying food.
@Mark Knoop Well, I’m black. I don’t have a car. I can’t afford a car with over $100 a month insurance and parking fees and now because of the pandemic, it’s stupid to ride public transit. All of the sudden, a bicycle (mostly e-bikes and bikes that have been “pimped” with e-bike kits) starts to make sense.
@@geraldshields9035 ik don't have a car either because i don't want one.
And i'm with in the winter and brown in the summer.
@@markknoop6283 Okay, but you can say “I don’t want a car” even though you can afford a car. 🤷🏾♂️
@@geraldshields9035 i have 4 kids that are going school.
What needs to happen is big company need to give a safer bike storage. I rode my ebike to Walmart and I left it locked on a bike rack a mile away from the entrance with crack heads sitting right next to it. I didn't buy anything I got my bike out real quick. Target whole foods 711, all with cheap bike racks. Google how many bikes a year are stolen a year, now would you want to leave your 2k bike on a cheap bike rack in fount of crack heads?
Also there is no device you can buy to let you know when your bike is being moved or stolen. They all just make a loud noise. Companies don't want the liability of a confrontation.
With bad bike racks and poor alarm systems who will ever ride an ebike anywhere and leave it?
Here in the UK bikers are just targets for car drivers and thieves, you can bike but cannot leave your bike for 5 minutes to go into a shop even if it is locked up, many car drivers hate cyclist and literally run us off the road, cut us up at every opportunity, taxi drivers are the worse because they see it as lost business, I've had them pull alongside me matching my speed wind the window down shout abuse and then slowly get closer and closer forcing me into the curb.
So buy a Brompton folding bike, and take it with you wherever you go! It even turns into a rolling shopping cart!
@@tongsllc yep, that solves the theft part, I have a folding bike for that purpose, but with it's small wheels it feels much less safe with the pot holes roads and muddy tracks than my DIY full suspension mountain bike and drivers are even more aggressive toward it for some reason?!?
I persevere though, my wife drives the car 99% of time and I use my bikes as my main form of transport and love it most of the time, much nicer way to get around and never get stuck in traffic lol.
I can't believe UK roads are as bad as US roads. Given you have crappy roads with lots of potholes, use it as a micro-mobility device to complement public transit and not as a long-distance tool. Below are your 3 choices:
(1) Brompton folding bikes have 14 inch (35.56 cm) tyres. One tyre folds under frame, the other rotates next to it. Fits into a suitcase.
(2) Another micro-mobility device to consider is electric scooter - more compact than folding bikes, BUT wheel diameter is much smaller than folding bikes.
(3) A third option is electric unicycle - diameter of wheel is much larger than scooter, but it takes much more time to master (It is a toy until you master it - you can turn on a dime. Otherwise, do not take it out on the road - you can get killed by motorists.). It is essentially a gyroscope on one wheel.
Which micro-mobility device you choose is trade-off between extremely compact vs wheel diameter vs weight!
NOTE: increase power = increase safety. But increase power = increase weight. You do not buy power for speed, but as safety measure to prevent motor from suddenly shutting off when you are riding and battery power becomes low - very dangerous! That is benefit of on-board computer.
Manual or electric folding bike, electric scooter, or electric unicycle are all great complements to buses. They all close the first/last leg gap - the distance between home and bus stop / bus stop and office. You DO have intra-city buses, don't you?
Priority: Bike - short distance, bus - medium distance, train - medium / long distance, airplane - long distance or intercontinental.
@@tongsllc yes we have buses in Yorkshire, expensive though, I can get all around London for the same price as a couple of mile trip up here.
ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION COST
I hear petroleum is very costly in EU. Petrol in USA is reaching parity with EU.
Therefore, it is becoming much more advantageous to purchase your own micro-mobility device. On average, public transit and petroleum fuel are roughly the same cost in USA. Where you save money is by NOT purchasing car, and NOT paying auto insurance. Moreover, you relieve yourself worry of traffic tickets, and auto theft or vandalism.
I live in auto crazy USA, and I have not owned a car in 10 years already.
The message by the guy who started the bike parking box appeals to left leaning audiences. He’s not wrong with what he was saying, but there needs to be messaging that works for all people. Right leaning people traditionally are pro car and anti transportation network change. Make a message and appeal to them
There are studies that show biking and walking gets more people into shops. That should interest them.
I’m a conservative leaning person but I’m for bicycles! Very strongly!!! I saw how they worked another cities and how healthy people can be riding them and it’s isolating to be in cars all the time.
Meanwhile bicyclists in India,
Adapt, Adjust and Survive
Just get rid of the cars and it will be bike friendly
#1 way to make a city more bike-friendly? Make cycling safer. In every bike-car crash, make the car operator at-fault until proven otherwise. Currently, the bike rider is at fault until proven otherwise. If motor vehicle operators fear legal repercussions over crashes with bikes, they will pay more attention. Also... ban cell phone use in motor vehicles, which is catching on many places.
I can handle not having separate facilities, but motor vehicle drivers are too distracted, and when their distraction results in the death of a cyclist, they get a slap on the wrist if they get anything at all. Many times, they claim that they didn't see the bike (even if it was lit up like a Christmas tree), and that's accepted as a legitimate excuse.
If I could ride to work, it would be a 10 mile ride. I would do that if it were safe enough. If I ever attempt to cycle to work again, I will have fore and aft facing cameras, with a sign informing those around me that they're being recorded.
One of the reasons people are cycling more in the US, is that people are getting so effing poor that they can't afford a car anymore. Ride a bike, be chill. Stop worrying. Stop rushing.
In the Netherlands, it's mostly the rich that cycle, while the poor tend to drive cars more often.
@@donder91 Why is it the other way around in the Netherlands?
Its impossible, im not going to bike for half a day to get to work
Thats when you go by car or by public transport, if your job is 10 miles away it makes sense not to cycle, but when your destination is just 2 miles away cycling is a good choice. And is faster becouse if everyone takes the car there is alot of traffic
@@Lunavii_Cellest 10 miles is maybe 25 minute ride. Less with proper bike lanes and traffic control.
My biggest fear is biking I cant bike ☹☹☹
Its never too late to learn.
No one born knowing.
You should, learn ut is ok, dont be afraid.
Once you learn u never forget
It's pretty easy to learn actually! Give it a shot :)
Individuals, politicians and corporations all need to do more to protect the planet from climate change.
Stop using fossil fuels. Stop using pesticides, add solar energy to your home or business, buy an electric vehicle, eat more fruit and vegetables and less meat and dairy, plant a tree, recycle everything. Every adult and child should own a bicycle and ride it regularly. Donate to non profits fighting for a better future. Support and elect climate leaders. Every child should plant a tree, bush or flowers wiith a parent or teacher. It will help connect them to nature and the environment. .What kind of future do you want for your children and grandchildren ?