An occasional update on items from the Velo-city.
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SEPARATION IN SEATTLE
The First section of Seattle’s Broadway Bikeway opens. It’ll look familiar.
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More background here.
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BIKES AND BUSINESS: CYCLISTS SHOP MORE
From the Cycling Embassy of Denmark: Cycling customers consume more
In terms of revenue, cycling customers spend a total of 2.05 billion € per year whereas car driving customers spend slightly less, that is 2.04 billion € per year. In total, walking and cycling customers count for 55% of the total revenue of street-level shops and supermarkets in Copenhagen.
Interestingly, cyclists spend less per visit as well as per whole shopping trip than car drivers. The average spending for cyclists is 30€ per visit and 50€ per trip, whereas car drivers spend 60€ per visit and 90€ per trip. The reason cycling customers still generate more revenue than car driving customers is due to the fact that cyclists in general shop more often than car drivers, which in turn compensates for the tendency to spend less per visit.
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Another important aspect is the general high level of cycling in the city proper, that is, among local residents. The fact that cycling is already the Copenhageners’ favourite mode of transport evidently increases the share of shopping trips done by bike. This is underlined by the fact that cycling and walking each account for a modal share of 38% of Copenhageners’ shopping trips, summing up to 35 billion shopping trips per year by walking and cycling.
On the other hand, almost half of all shopping trips by car are done by persons living outside of Copenhagen coming into town for shopping purposes. On average, Copenhagen residents only use the car for every seventh shopping trip, that is, 15% of all shopping trips.
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CYCLING IN MONTREAL … IN 1897
By way of Copenhagenize: Bicycle Map of Montreal from… 1897. From an insurance company (follow the money) but still brilliant to see the bicycle infrastructure back then.
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The map of Montreal is interesting — a useful artifact to silence those who complain about cycling infrastructure hijacking the existing road network. (i.e. “Cars were here first”)
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There’s nothing particularly surprising about the Copenhagen sales results.
When I lived in east Vancouver the nearest grocery stores were more than 2.5km away, all along inconvenient diagonals that made using transit awkward and time consuming. It meant that buying basic necessities required a trip in the car. We visited our favourite store once per week, but being in the car meant that it was relatively easy to go to a big box store farther away.
Now I live within walking distance of a major grocery store. We never buy more than we can easily carry home, but shop so frequently that our aggregate purchases are definitely higher than they otherwise would be. We know we’re paying generally higher prices than we would at Costco or WalMart, but it doesn’t cost us anything to get there. Walking saves us time, provides a little exercise, is low stress and helps the environment so even if it costs a bit more from time to time it’s well worth it.
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Here’s a similar bike map from Victoria, 1897: http://contentdm.library.uvic.ca/cdm/singleitem/collection/veh/id/1575
I have a feeling you might have featured this before, but can’t seem to find it.
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