Agreed!
It's impossible to use anything but cars in places with bad weather. Science has proved it!
It's impossible to use anything but cars in places with bad weather. Science has proved it!
For a rare few places in the world, open air transportation could work year round. For the rest, you'll need an equally sized fleet of cars for the bad days, and scooters for the good days, than can be easily swapped.
1. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15389588.2020.17...
> During the observation period, a total of 875 GC-related crashes occurred, representing an average of 136 crashes, 65 hospitalizations, and 9 dead or disabled annually. Of all crashes, 48% resulted in hospitalization, severe trauma, or death. Of these, ejection occurred in 27%, hospitalization in 55%, and death or disability in 15% of crashes.
2. Random YouTube for scale: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xHh1vAGd8Uk/hqdefault.jpg
Nice personal attack.
You have 0 info about me to say anything. You know what they say: "if you have nothing to say, just shut up". Your mom should have taught you that ;-)
> For a rare few places in the world, open air transportation could work year round. For the rest, you'll need an equally sized fleet of cars for the bad days, and scooters for the good days, than can be easily swapped.
A rare few places?
Bikes are common in South East Asia (hot, wet).
Bikes are common in the Netherlands (wet, windy).
Bikes are common in Finland (icy).
Electric bikes are starting to make even hilly terrain bikeable.
Unless population density is low, bikes + scooters + public transport can cover everything.
People just don't want to do that. That's a different story to "it can't be done!!!11!!".
The path I was on wasn't really maintained with winter bikers in mind, and I never even thought of researching winter tires, and I wasn't a particularly skilled cyclist (I don't think I cleaned the chain once in several years).
So I did what any stubborn-minded fool who had to bike to their job rain or shine would do: I simply fell over repeatedly until I started getting the hang of things (pro-tip: just don't turn at all and you won't fall over)
Nowadays I'm too old to consider regularly crashing during my commute to be a particularly sane idea; though I still don't have a car and wish cycling infrastructure would get even a fraction of the attention that car infrastructure does.
However there is a strong lack of will for it in many places.
In many others the population density doesn't really allow it.
As usual, it's a mix of things, just that the current default of "cars everywhere" should be turned on its head. It should be: "no cars everywhere, and then introduce cars where they are actually needed".