Barcelona’s Bicibús: hundreds of families biking to school together
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#2Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28970792 (this is a different article)
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#3It is my experience that two things correlate positively with widespread adoption of biking:
a. Relatively flat city terrain. (Not the case in Prague, for example; a lot of the residential areas are at much higher elevation than the city centre.)
b. Moderate temperatures at both ends of the summer-winter scale. Most people won't bike to work at -20 or +35 Celsius.
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#4It is my experience that two things correlate positively with widespread adoption of biking: a. Relatively flat city terrain. (Not the case in Prague, for example; a lot of the residential areas are at much higher elevation than the city centre.) b. Moderate temperatures at both ends of the summer-winter scale. Most people won't bike to work at -20 or +35 Celsius.
With regards to b. That seems to be true only partially seehttps://www.euronews.com/2021/01/22/meet-the-bike-loving-fin...
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#5> the ride from start to finish lasts about 25 minutes.
That's about 50 minutes to and fro. That's all the exercise a child needs in a day. Wish they'll succeed in making it every day, instead of just on Fridays.
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#6It is my experience that two things correlate positively with widespread adoption of biking: a. Relatively flat city terrain. (Not the case in Prague, for example; a lot of the residential areas are at much higher elevation than the city centre.) b. Moderate temperatures at both ends of the summer-winter scale. Most people won't bike to work at -20 or +35 Celsius.
I agree. Luckily (a) is slowly changing thanks to ebikes (you can even get child ebikes now!)
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#7It is my experience that two things correlate positively with widespread adoption of biking: a. Relatively flat city terrain. (Not the case in Prague, for example; a lot of the residential areas are at much higher elevation than the city centre.) b. Moderate temperatures at both ends of the summer-winter scale. Most people won't bike to work at -20 or +35 Celsius.
Someone already linked to Oulu which proves that biking may be unaffected by freezing temps.
On the other end of the spectrum, and unanserwed in the article here—Sevilla might be a great place to study the effect of heat.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2020/10/13/best-practices-how-se...
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#8It is my experience that two things correlate positively with widespread adoption of biking: a. Relatively flat city terrain. (Not the case in Prague, for example; a lot of the residential areas are at much higher elevation than the city centre.) b. Moderate temperatures at both ends of the summer-winter scale. Most people won't bike to work at -20 or +35 Celsius.
How many places in the world would you get +35 Celsius (95 F) in the morning?
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#9It is my experience that two things correlate positively with widespread adoption of biking: a. Relatively flat city terrain. (Not the case in Prague, for example; a lot of the residential areas are at much higher elevation than the city centre.) b. Moderate temperatures at both ends of the summer-winter scale. Most people won't bike to work at -20 or +35 Celsius.
I think you'd be a little surprised. I have a friend in Chicago who's bike commuted year round now for decades.
That's anecdotal for sure but once you are acclimatized to winter I think the gating criteria is more around a secure place to park your bike during the day.
I have another work buddy in Minneapolis who sends me pictures of the temp guage on his Fat-Bike of like -20F training rides in Jan and Feb... yikes!!!!
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#10It is my experience that two things correlate positively with widespread adoption of biking: a. Relatively flat city terrain. (Not the case in Prague, for example; a lot of the residential areas are at much higher elevation than the city centre.) b. Moderate temperatures at both ends of the summer-winter scale. Most people won't bike to work at -20 or +35 Celsius.
How many places in the world would you get +35 Celsius (95 F) in the morning?
Not too rare in parts of the southern USA in the summer. But you also have the return bike trip home in the afternoon... and by then it might be 40.