Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
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If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
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The great news is that infrastructure to make cities more walkable and bikeable is actually really cheap. Like, compared to car infrastructure that can move a similar amount of people it’s nothing. It’s mostly an issue of political will to actually build the stuff.

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Cool. Now how do we make winter more amenable to cycling?

@Spzi@lemmy.click
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YouTube: Not Just Bikes - Why Canadians Can’t Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)

how do we make winter more amenable to cycling?

See chapter 5: ‘Second: proper winter maintenance’.

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