cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/post/733430
According to the City of Boston 11% of all traffic in the city is from bikes. I think this is also due to the extremely cheap bike rentals that are highly available throughout town and driving here is a fucking nightmare. Now they just need to do something about the truck drivers actively destroying the plastic bumpers protecting the bike gutters and folks might feel safe enough to commute.
The car brain cannot process this.
Every person that chooses another form of transportation means one less car on the road/street/hwy for the individuals that still choose to drive in a car.
Not to mention one more empty parking space at their destination.
It’s amazing to see in action. I have a colleague who insists our work should demolish the parkinghouse for bicycles and designate that zone for car parking. When I told him that the people commuting by bike would then go by car and needed more parking spaces than would be created by this measure, it was like his brain had a bluescreen.
