The photos also call to mind a particularly well-known demonstration
of the road space people in cars take up, in comparison to both bikes
and buses.
In 1991, the German city of Münster commissioned a
poster showing the amount of street space taken up by 72 people sharing
a bus, riding bikes, or driving alone in cars. It's since been
recreated several different times — most recently, in Canberra,
Australia, by the Cycling Promotion Fund:
In Latvia, as part of International Car Free Day, some cyclists
went to a lot of trouble to tangibly demonstrate one huge difference
between bikes and cars: the amount of space they take up on the road.
These photos, which the European cycling group Let's Bike It posted to the social network Vk.com,
show a group of bikers in Riga that strapped rickety car-sized
constructions to their bikes to show how much space they'd take up if
they were actually driving one.
The implication here is pretty obvious: if those cyclists actually
were in cars, they'd dramatically increase traffic congestion. On the
other hand, getting people out of cars and onto bikes is one way of
cutting it.
The implication here is pretty obvious: if those cyclists actually
were in cars, they'd dramatically increase traffic congestion. On the
other hand, getting people out of cars and onto bikes is one way of
cutting it.
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