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   Brent Toderian (brenttoderian@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 11:10:08 JST Brent Toderian

   • Dublin Cycling Campaign

   One of the MOST IMPORTANT THINGS your city could do to become more healthy, sustainable, livable, affordable, equitable, resilient, etc — stop pretending to “balance” transportation modes, & commit to PRIORITIZING walking/rolling, biking, public transit. HT @dublincyclingcampaign for graphic

   #cities #walking #biking #transit #bikes #cars

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 11:09:58 JST Børge

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     • Josephine Roper
     • Dublin Cycling Campaign

     @jroper Cycling is better because of the effects it has: Great effect on the health, which saves the public money and is just good in general, less runing and maintanence costs for the public transportation, and less damage on the asphalt, which creates unhealhty air pollution and less microplastics from the buss tires. All in all it's very smart for cities to work to get more people to cycle than take PT @BrentToderian @dublincyclingcampaign

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     Josephine Roper (jroper@transportation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 11:10:08 JST Josephine Roper

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     • Dublin Cycling Campaign

     @BrentToderian @dublincyclingcampaign In NSW we have (theoretically!) this same hierarchy. But I question why they both place cyclists above public transport. I think it's reflecting something about vulnerability, but it doesn't really make sense to me as an overall 'more desirable', from an external perspective, in all situations. On heavy demand routes and in dense areas, public transport is more space efficient than cycling, both in motion and in parking space required.