The site found that despite millions being invested in cycling infrastructure across America, the number of people regularly riding to work has fallen by 75,000 compared with pre-pandemic levels.
This is such bullshit. If you follow the links it does lead to a number or even a lot of investment. Some cities improving stuff but they are also counting people buying e-bikes, and entire cities buying bike fleets. You can spend billions on buying bikes if you want, that’s not “infrastructure”.
“Millions” across the US is a laughable investment. European cities individually spend more than that, because it’s cheaper than maintaining roads for cars, adding more lanes of highways, and climate change.
I bet you the amount of money being poured into new highways is 100x was is being done for bikes.
I latched onto the same stat, but for a different reason. What percentage of those 75,000 don’t ride to work because they are now working from home?
I don’t ride to work anymore, but I put in more miles than ever. 30 miles round trip to grab a beer with a friend on Saturday afternoon, hell yeah! Sometimes I go out on my lunch breaks to wake up and re-energize myself.
I bet you the amount of money being poured into new highways is 100x was is being done for bikes.
You’re a orders of magnitude off. Let’s assume “millions” means 10 million. I’m also going to generously assume 10 million per year, rather than the more likely 10 million over a couple years.
With those figures highway and street spending is 13,000 more.
Edit: I just reread and saw NEW construction. I don’t have that figure.
Edit 2: on secons look, that 130 $bn spending nust be new roads; that looks like insufficient maintaince for the 161,000 mi of highways in the USA, let alone all other roads.
This is such bullshit. If you follow the links it does lead to a number or even a lot of investment. Some cities improving stuff but they are also counting people buying e-bikes, and entire cities buying bike fleets. You can spend billions on buying bikes if you want, that’s not “infrastructure”.
“Millions” across the US is a laughable investment. European cities individually spend more than that, because it’s cheaper than maintaining roads for cars, adding more lanes of highways, and climate change.
I bet you the amount of money being poured into new highways is 100x was is being done for bikes.
I latched onto the same stat, but for a different reason. What percentage of those 75,000 don’t ride to work because they are now working from home?
I don’t ride to work anymore, but I put in more miles than ever. 30 miles round trip to grab a beer with a friend on Saturday afternoon, hell yeah! Sometimes I go out on my lunch breaks to wake up and re-energize myself.
You’re a orders of magnitude off. Let’s assume “millions” means 10 million. I’m also going to generously assume 10 million per year, rather than the more likely 10 million over a couple years.
With those figures highway and street spending is 13,000 more.
Edit: I just reread and saw NEW construction. I don’t have that figure.
Edit 2: on secons look, that 130 $bn spending nust be new roads; that looks like insufficient maintaince for the 161,000 mi of highways in the USA, let alone all other roads.
Indeed. How much money per mile of 4-lane stroad with a center turn lane? Is it a million dollars a mile?