Originally Posted by
welshTerrier2
We have allowed the automobile to become far too dominant. Cars de-socialize us. …
...As we reengineer our transit systems, perhaps bicycle highways, especially in urban areas, will play a greater role. In outlying suburbs, perhaps multi-modal systems that combine short-range cycling with longer-range rapid transit are the key to the future
Watch Mikael Colville Anderson on youtube.
And while I was searching for other bicycle advocacy videos, I learned that the bicycle is a big driver of many local economies around the world. Unfortunately, when the community grows and automobiles are introduced, the automobile-centric roadways push everybody aside and ruin the bicycle economy to the point where today motorists often say that roads are made for cars.
This was what had already happened in North American and European cities when the automobile was introduced about a hundred years ago and it’s being replicated today as automobiles are pushing aside the local economies built by bicycles.
History repeats itself.