| Comment | … because a huge amount of peer reviewed research shows a clear link between the existence of safe cycle lanes and an increase in cycling. Proper research, based on highly scrutinised studies done in multiple climate scenarios across the world. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2220515120
Of course if you’d like to provide some peer reviewed high quality research that disputes mine I will read it.
Add that high quality research and a waterproof jacket and scarf, and well… yeah, cycling isn’t the big stressful thing you make it out to be, except for the fact that sometimes we end up being overtaken unsafely and horns tooted at us because we’re mixed with cars. Only car traffic makes me stressed when cycling, not weather. Our streets aren’t on another planet, our city isn’t THAT different from other cities. These reasons are flimsy and don’t hold up to scrutiny except that they might be reasons why you, personally, don’t want to cycle. Which is fine - no-one’s forcing you to cycle. They’re just trying to make it possible for people to cycle and not feel they have no safe choice but to drive an expensive personal car. |
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