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Bicycle Still the World’s Most Efficient Way to Travel — 52 Years After It Was First Proven Half a century after Scientific American first declared the bicycle 'the most efficient form of human transport.'

Bicycle Still the World’s Most Efficient Way to Travel — 52 Years After It Was First Proven.
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Why cyclists ride on the left side of the bike lane ⬇️

#sandiego

Going from 1 car to 0 cars is often where this conversation gets stuck. It’s the hardest one to figure out. But exploring going from 3 to 2 or 2 to 1 can have a huge impact on family finances and health. Give it a listen!

Love this bit: “healthcare costs, which are car related” 😍

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Another person has joined club car lite! Interesting read on the trade offs for a family in the real world. Hopefully they can keep banking the saving through the winter. www.reddit.com/r/MiddleClas...

San Mateo folks, get in line here (behind me 😁) smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S7...

This is what we're up against.

Air pollution isn't even part of the active transportation in our SF Bay Area suburb. Great to see these wins! Makes me wish our local media dug a bit deeper than their favorite bikes vs. parking narrative.

Places for people > Places for cars

The same holds true in a car-focused SF Bay Area suburb. If safe alternatives existed people would flock to them!

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Calls for increased e-bike education evokes pushback in Foster City As part of a growing trend calling for more e-bike education and regulation, Foster City hopes the San Mateo-Foster City School District will help conduct more training programs, citing safety

“We are not going to fix this by forcing kids to sit through assemblies and calling it good, while the streets around schools are still over-wide and lack the separated bike lanes that make kids feel safe to ride,” Yiming Luo said during the meeting. www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/c...

people screaming Cyclist rolling through a stop sign. tumbleweed 1.35M annual worldwide road traffic deaths.

every time.

That intersection looks hilariously large with two reasonably sized vehicles. Love it!

This poster came out of that time at Apple and their marketing push for "Wheels for the Mind". It is super expensive to buy on eBay but I love the artwork. Wish there was a cheaper reproduction somewhere.

Morning ride to get coffee and pastries. The streets are so calm and quiet on a Sunday morning.

Go e-bikes go!

Now you need to focus on getting from 3 to 4!

Another good reason to consider going to N-1 cars.

The right number of bikes in your house is N+1 and the right number of cars in your house is N-1.

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"I moved to an area where my kids can bike to school, because as an advocate for livable cities, I wanted my kids to experience what it feels like to be free. And I wanted to be able to sleep in." -Cyprine Odada, founder of Women Shaping Cities, Nairobi

These are popular in beach towns in San Diego too. Seems like a great option if e-bikes don't fit the bill for you or your family.

The main reason city streets are dangerous for children isn’t because of crime.

It’s because of cars.

This is an embarassing lede

The @caltrain.com corridor in the SF Bay Area should at least get a mention here. With the new trains and new schedule it pretty amazing!

Updated this chart because it was missing an important option. You don't need to use an e-bike for all trips for it to save you a lot of money!

$0.70/100 miles is also a worst-case scenario. Your cost is likely much cheaper than this.

Charging a fair price for parking would be a good start! I’ll take getting paid to bike too though 😁

Of the three Amazon micro-logistics vehicles I’ve seen in NYC, I think this is the cutest.

Get out there and ride cargo bikes folks!

San Mateo struggles to grow without adding lots of cars. They have been mostly steady at 1.8 cars/household for a while.

Hopefully the new general plan and focus on building more housing near transit turns these trends in the right direction.

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Posted this, went to soccer game and it looks like someone beat me to it: www.reddit.com/r/SanMateo/c...

I'm going to be so famous 🥳

From 2007 to 2023 the number of cars in San Mateo went up by 20% while the area needed to store them jumped by 30%. How car bloat contributes to our city feeling full of cars: www.carlitesanmateo.com/blog/sm-car-...

This is fantastic! This is exactly what cities need, someone to come to their place of business and talk about how to share the streets with people on bikes and other vulnerable roads users.