It’s wild how often biking is just plain more efficient than driving
What’s funny is that it’s only that way because of all the people driving rather than cycling. If the people who could get to where they’re going without a car (bike/bus/train/whatever) used those alternative forms of transportation, then it would make the roads much clearer for the few people who actually need to drive (trades/emergency vehicles, etc.).
Both the total throughput and average speed of these roads would increase if more people were on bikes and buses. Unfortunately if it were to ever happen I fear people would just see the clearer roads and think, “Hey, the roads are clear now, I should drive again!” and we’d be right back to square one.
Man these covid times were absolutely great. I have to drive a lot for work and there was hardly any traffic during the day and in the evening or at night i would ride my skateboard or bike on the otherwise way to busy streets to go places.
I really hoped that if nothing else, maybe the lockdowns would at least have taught us how much better it is in so many ways to not have as many cars on the road, but that seems not to be the case. It’s certainly not helped by the fact that here in the UK bus services are being slashed left right and centre. And then we have the PM vocally supporting the pro-car movement…
