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One of the most significant outcomes has been a measurable change in travel behaviour. The number of bicycle trips increased by 10% during the first year, while bike-sharing use surged by 69%. Car-sharing trips increased by 44%, and urban journeys on Bologna’s metropolitan rail network rose by 31%.
In a debate dominated by speculation, Bologna has provided something more powerful: evidence. As cities search for ways to create safer, healthier, more liveable streets, this lesson is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore: sometimes the fastest route to a better city starts with slowing down.🔚
Centre Parcs radicalisation
Suirbhé do lucht na gcurach tíre in Éirinn 🚲
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- "Small design details can have a significant impact on everyday use. Scully found her bike very heavy, almost impossible to manoeuvre up the steps into her back garden and it had no basket, which turned out to matter more than it sounds."
This (and the whole article 👇) rings so authentic.
Well now, Minister Canney and the Road Safety Authority could take note here.
Write to them, or let them know if they are in your orbit.
#VisionZero
When the cycle lanes take up most of the roadway
Four people. One week. One challenge.
Barbara Scully, Mark Noble, Nicole Drought and Emer Currie swapped their cars for e-bikes to see if everyday journeys could be done differently.
The results? 👇 @independent.ie
www.independent.ie/irish-news/t...
Targeting cyclists for what is mainly an illegal moped problem on Capel St isn’t helpful for pedestrians
-- The previous "be sound" campaign is better messaging; it's perfect for shared streets. -- Dublin City Council making up well-meaning but impractical "rules" that don't exist creates…