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submitted 1 week ago by grue@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/52164892

Proposals for new or expanded bike lanes are often met with fierce backlash, in a phenomenon dubbed “bikelash,” with car drivers reluctant to lose any street space.

Yet our study finds that the current imbalance of spatial allocation is so overwhelmingly in favour of cars that it’s possible to make substantial improvements to bike infrastructure without significantly decreasing the space allocated per driver.

After all, a key advantage of bicycles is their incredible space-efficiency. Even if all the bike infrastructure space in the city were to double, the proportion of roadway given to cars would not fall below 90 per cent in any borough.

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[-] birdwing 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Controversial take, but I think cars should lose more space to housing, greenery, mainwalks, and bicycle pathes.

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

And with the amount of bikes I see when I go places on my bike, it surely takes quite a number of cars away from the road

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