Fair! Definitely makes your calculus different than most.

Though insurance and maintenance/repairs are other per-mile costs you are forgetting.

Depreciation is another consideration, but that depends on uf you you plan to sell or drive until failure, and if you want to wrap electric batteries and motors under depreciation or maintenance.

https://findtheright.bike/bike/longtail-ebike?car=own&replace=25

If you own a car and replace 25% of trips wih an ebike, you’re up $3,000 over 5 years.

Think of people who are disabled and can’t walk the 600 meters to the metro station or get on a bike.

To be clear, those people should have mobility options available to them. But why do we put primacy on disabled people who can drive over disabled people who cannot drive?

Nice to see a party finally focusing on large centralized government tht costs the taxpayers more.

Very cool! Here are some other options:

https://mschausprojects.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-to-tow-bike-with-another-bike.html?m=1

https://schleptastic.com/

Not the racers problem. The requirement to the racer is to stay in situ for 3 hours, it is MyWhoosh’s problem to get the testers there.

Cheaters gonna cheat is fine enough, until £5m / year in prize money is involved. Then MyWoosh needs to do something about cheating, lest riders go elsewhere.

$4.6T is less than 1 year of combined federal, state, municipal, and individual transportation spending.

$4.2 T combined individual

$600 B federal

$400 B state + municipal

Revenge of the Fifth

Canadian cop things. Not quite as bad as the Yanks, but still not great.

I live in North America, so I see cars ignoring speed limits on literally every road.

I see cars ignoring red lights when they turn right on red without ensuring there are no pedestrians in the crossing. I also see cars beginning crossing the intersection while the light is already red (in my own town this is such a problem, its common practice to wait a couple seconds after the light turns green to go).

I see cars consistently treating stop signs as yield.

Cyclists are just trying to match their motoring brethren who consistently ingone signs, traffic lights, and speed signs anyway

I have mastered the Swindon Magic Roundabout.

I can take on anything now.

Changing speeds and signs is a quick measure.

If properly staged, the data from vehicles speeding on these speed adjusted routes can prioritize works for traffic calming the others.

Thays how my city did it. Dropped the speeds, then prioritized a limited traffic calming budget based on where cars slowed down the least.

Extremely cool article. Only one point I disagree wih with

Many people assume that handcarts go on the road, with the cars, or on the cycling path. That’s not the case: you use it on the sidewalk.

Jean Merrill documented The Pushcart War about this exact allocation of road space. Push carts belong on the road, don’t let car propaganda tell you otherwise.

Caveat: i say this from a systems perspective that cart SHOULD be on the road. Not a personal safety perspective where one might want to take the sidewalk.

I mean the one in the field.

Why is weed trimming around the supports necessary?

The world has lost over $50 billion worth of crude oil

Oh no! Did we check under the mattress?

that has not been produced since the Iran war began nearly 50 days ago

Oh, we HAVEN’T lost it. It was just a complete win.

150-200 km. So 2-3x the length of that commute.

3000 calories additional for 72km? I think there is an error woth your calculator, or it may include BMR in the estimate.

Tour de france riders consude about 5000 calories per stage. Though they are obviously optimized for it.

Cycling adds between 250-1000 extra calories per hour, though it varies by speed and weight.

My historicals show I burn ~500/hour on my longtail with my kid on the commute, and an hour of commuting time would be 25 kms travelled. 500 cal is about 500 grams of beans, so 500g of beans per/100 km. For comparison the car I have is 7L/100km.

I can buy 1kg of beans for 5$, and 1L of gas for $1.70. So by bike is $2.50/100km. By car is $11.9/100km. If I fueled solely on sirloin steak (2cal/g) that would be $13/100km.

Now, I happen to fucking love beans and cooking them many ways. But these costs are also ONLY fuel, ignoring all the other costs and benifits associated with both methods of transportation.

For example, I always travel 25kph by bike. In the city the trip average speed by gar is 35kph, so not a big difference. If I’m travelling outside the city, the trip average will be closer of 90 or 100kph by car, and still 25kph by bike.

My bike also costs $0 in insurance and very little in maintenance or repairs. I also get to scrap as much cardio time from my workouts as I put into cycling; either giving me more time in the day, or letting me focus on another activity.