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Bicycles don’t need that, and it wasn’t made for them, so I don’t know why you’d charge “road cost” to the bicycle ledger when they’re such a distant second (at
by bch 4y ago
Bicycles don’t need that, and it wasn’t made for them, so I don’t know why you’d charge “road cost” to the bicycle ledger when they’re such a distant second (at best) citizen on most roadways anyway.
- fanf2 4y agoRoads were originally paved for bicycles, before cars. https://www.cyclinguk.org/cycle/roads-built-cars https://www.cyclinguk.org/cycle/roads-built-cars https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2013/apr/16/roads-not-built-for-cars-book https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2013/apr/1... https://roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/ https://roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/
- googlryas 4y agoMaybe some roads somewhere were built for bicyclists, but I don't think you can generally say that when there are literally 6000 year old paved roads leading to Ur. Horse drawn carriages and wagons would benefit from roads and were probably much more common and important to business/transport than bicycles until the 20th century.
- stouset 4y agoAnd what percentage of roads paved today do you suspect were done so primarily for the benefit of bicyclists?