cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/52164892
Proposals for new or expanded bike lanes are often met with fierce backlash, in a phenomenon dubbed “bikelash,” with car drivers reluctant to lose any street space.
Yet our study finds that the current imbalance of spatial allocation is so overwhelmingly in favour of cars that it’s possible to make substantial improvements to bike infrastructure without significantly decreasing the space allocated per driver.
After all, a key advantage of bicycles is their incredible space-efficiency. Even if all the bike infrastructure space in the city were to double, the proportion of roadway given to cars would not fall below 90 per cent in any borough.
Controversial take, but I think cars should lose more space to housing, greenery, mainwalks, and bicycle pathes.
Very controversial, transit should also be on that list.
Scandalous! There should be space for street food carts too!
And with the amount of bikes I see when I go places on my bike, it surely takes quite a number of cars away from the road
