>It just never is Norway or Switzerland. What's the cycling modal share in your city, and is it higher than Oslo's? https://ecf.com/news-and-events/news/city-

>It just never is Norway or Switzerland. What's the cycling modal share in your city, and is it higher than Oslo's? https://ecf.com/news-and-events/news/city-oslo-joins-cities-regions-cyclists-network https://ecf.com/news-and-events/news/city-oslo-joins-cities-... >With a modal share of 7% (2018), Oslo’s bicycle strategy has a modal share target for cycling of 16% by 2025. Furthermore, Oslo has seen a ten-fold increase in the annual construction of bicycle infrastructure, from 1.5 km/year to over 15 km/year, with an updated mandate to build 100 km for the period 2020-2023. >Oslo has a strong focus on road maintenance, which complemented by winter cycling campaigns, has drastically contributed to higher numbers of winter cyclists. A priority network of bike lanes was established for high-level winter maintenance, which in its first three years of operation has resulted in an 78% increase in cycling traffic during the winter months. It turns out that when you consider "how will people cycle in the winter" as a problem to be solved, rather than simply an excuse for doing nothing, you can dramatically improve your city. Amazingly, when you treat cycling as a first class citizen in the transportation network, and keep the cycle lanes in proper condition rather than abandoning them to the elements the second things get tough, people will use them year round even in cold climates. And while they did this, they cut pedestrian and cyclist fatalities down to zero. Any city can do this, if it actually tries.