Originally Posted by
Juha
If you build cycling infrastructure, it must be well planned, built and maintained. It's a long term effort and requires political commitment
A new bike lane is being built here at the moment, and some of the members of our cycling coalition have been out taking photographs that make it clear that the construction company is cutting corners, so we've been putting the heat on the politicians, insisting that the work be done properly. We have to be on top of them all the time if we want something decent. You can't just throw up your hands and say, "Oh, well, if they can't do this right, we'll just have to give in and carry on riding in the streets with high-speed traffic." With that kind of attitude, you'll never get past a two or three percent modal share, very few women will get on a bike and no one will dare let their children cycle to school or anywhere else.