• Mardoniush [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    But I can say from personal experience that walkers and bikers use virtually all of the same infrastructure

    Do they? Most places I've lived bikes can use roads or designated bike paths, but generally not pedestrian paths unless designated otherwise.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      We have bike trails in Houston, but joggers are all over them. We have a few bike lanes in downtown, but they're relatively short and they all link up to the bike trails anyway, so its functionally all the same traffic.

      Either way, the notion that bikers use 8x the social spending as walkers feels like horseshit to me.

      • nine_leven [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Either way, the notion that bikers use 8x the social spending as walkers feels like horseshit to me.

        I could believe it - this is Canadian data and I've sure as shit seen Canadian bicyclists mowed down by automobiles on unsafe roads. I'd assume that gets divvied up between the two modes of transport in the "externalities" :doomer: