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Cycling remains massively marginal as a mode of everyday urban mobility across the globe
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http://thinkingaboutcycling.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/towards-a-bicycle-system/
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"Cycling remains massively marginal as a mode of everyday urban mobility"
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Posted 13 years ago #
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"cycling has new kudos. Cycling is becoming ‘cool’ and experiencing a ‘renaissance’, particularly amongst affluent, white, middle-class, inner-urban professionals." (http://thinkingaboutcycling.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/towards-a-bicycle-system/)
That's all right then- they are the very people to win over the hearts & minds of every car commuter, white van man & bus driver streaming in to town from the non-inner-urban bits of the benighted hinterland.
Posted 13 years ago # -
It's a good blog but this sentence jars, "Bicycles only became accessible to those less affluent when the rich jumped from them, into cars." I suppose because it implies a causal link that doesn't seem logical. More likely, the development of industrial production lowered the cost of both cars and bikes to a point where they became affordable: cars to the rich and bicycles to the less affluent.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Possibly a combination of that and surplus/unwanted bicycles becoming available cheaply secondhand as the wealthier moved onto cars?
Posted 13 years ago #
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