Annals of Cycling – 37
An occasional update on items from the Velo-city.
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RAIN VERSUS TEMPERATURE
This explains a lot about what you see in the cycling lanes on the Burrard Bridge:
… there’s a steep drop in bicycle traffic from dry days to wet – an immediate decline of around 30% from days with zero precipitation to those with even one millimetre. But beyond that, heavier rainfall appears to have little impact on cycling numbers …
So what do you think happens as the temperature goes down? You’ll have to go to The Dependent to find out.
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HOW THE DUTCH DID IT
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From the Project for Public Spaces:
The video … offers vital historical perspective on the way the Netherlands ended up turning away from the autocentric development that arose with postwar prosperity, and chose to go down the cycle path. It lists several key factors, including public outrage over the amount of space given to automobiles; huge protests over traffic deaths, especially those of children, which were referred to by protesters as “child murder”; and governmental response to the oil crisis of the 1970s, which prompted efforts to reduce oil dependence without diminishing quality of life.
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HEALTH IN THE GREEN ECONOMY
Or, “Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation – Transport sector”
Well, that covers a lot of territory – appropriate, given this document comes from the World Health Organization:
This new WHO report, part of the Health in the Green Economy series,
considers the evidence regarding health co-benefits, and risks, of climate change mitigation strategies for transport, as reviewed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate.
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