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> Amsterdam works because it's a very flat It's also super-windy. Places that have massively adopted cycling rarely have the best environmental conditions for
by the_gastropod 7y ago
> Amsterdam works because it's a very flat
It's also super-windy. Places that have massively adopted cycling rarely have the best environmental conditions for it. Minneapolis, for example, has some of the highest bike commuting numbers in the U.S., despite it's high snowfall and frigid temperatures. We're pretty good at making excuses, and "grass is greener"-ing places that make it work.
> ... very dense city
Chicken/egg scenario here. U.S. cities are sprawling because cars both require it and make it possible.
- grecy 7y agoExactly. Whitehorse in the Yukon has the highest number of bike commuters per capita in Canada despite the -40 winters. PS it's like a different planet riding you bike around in those temperatures!
- zip1234 7y agoWhat is interesting to me is that cycling technology really didn't come about until cars came. The first reasonably safe bikes were from the 1880s-90s and the car came in 1886. I wonder what would have happened had the cycling tech of today been around for awhile before cars?