CelloMom On Cars
Take this to your local council and ask them to start treating bike riders like the climate heroes we are.
We need safe infrastructure, the money assigned to build that infrastructure - oh, and municipal snow clearing. Because sidewalks and bike lanes are part of the "Complete Streets".
Peter Brown
@12thRITS @CelloMomOnCars @breadandcircuses well they concluded that it was actually to address feminism because in one-car households, the male usually drove, leaving the female to take the children to school and then go to work. And that journey was done entirely on the sidewalk.
Furthermore, in order to open schools, factories and other buildings, there first need to be janitors and cleaners on the premises and they walk to work.
Cars just bend, people, especially older people, break bones.
Peter Brown
@12thRITS @CelloMomOnCars @breadandcircuses “Three times as many people are injured while walking in icy conditions in Sweden than while driving. And the cost of those injuries far exceeds the cost of snow clearance.”
“So the order was reversed. Municipalities faced no additional cost for clearing pedestrian paths first. And it reduced injuries, in addition to being objectively fairer.”
Here’s a link
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/01/24/why-sweden-clears-walkways-before-roads
Lot⁴⁹
@peterbrown @CelloMomOnCars @breadandcircuses Uh-oh, sounds like social engineering! [as if paving half the world for cars isn't]
Peter Brown
@CelloMomOnCars @breadandcircuses in many Scandinavian towns the carriageway is not cleared of snow until the sidewalks and cycle routes have been dealt with.
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