The Real Reason Why Bicycles are the Key to Better Cities

03 May 2024 | Abstracted from Smart Cities Drives

"On a bicycle, citizens experience their city with deep intimacy, often for the first time. For a regular motorist to take that two or three mile trip by bicycle instead is to decimate an enormous wall between them and their communities...One cannot turn a blind eye on a bicycle - they must acknowledge their community, all of it."

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