| Comment | 1. Geographically? Are you meaning hills? Cause, and I'm honestly flummoxed how this continues to be an argument against cycle lanes somehow... The majority of roads that cycle lanes are planned on aren't all that hilly. We have a tonne of relatively flat arterial roads connecting neighbourhoods and the city centre. The idea is not to build mass cycleways up the likes of Gardner Street or Montrose Street, but along Paisley Road West, Great Western Road, London Road and the like. All reasonably flat routes. It's a total straw man that I'm sick of seeing.
2. If you think bike theft is a problem here, you should see what it's like in the Netherlands! It's routine and entirely expected that a bike might last you a year, tops, before it's nicked. The thing is though, bikes are so stupidly plentiful, that it's not a big hindrance to uptake of cycling.
The single biggest hindrance to the uptake of cycling is a lack of connected infrastructure. The Netherlands has that sorted.
"We aren't the Netherlands".
Quite! We don't have the infrastructure yet!
There was a point in time, pre the 1970s revolution in road design and transport Strategy in the Netherlands, where even it wasn't *The Netherlands*, as we know it now. |
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