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The network effects evolve over time because people move. As a city increases bike friendliness, it will attract people to move there who want a livable/bikable
by acchow 4y ago
The network effects evolve over time because people move. As a city increases bike friendliness, it will attract people to move there who want a livable/bikable life.
As NotJustBikes has taught me, you don't have to start from scratch. Many cities in Europe were bulldozed for the car only to regret this decision decades later. Now you have bike utopias like Amsterdam.
- trmsw 4y agoDefinitely. Brussels was designed for cars (and Belgium is very car-centric in many ways) but it's got much better for cycling in the ~15 years I've been here, thanks to a mixture of incremental improvements and political "big pushes".