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thegreenurbanist:
kateoplis:
“Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people [the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet], saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80 percent of its population commutes by bicycle, even in winter. That’s $300 per person per year.
Clearly, the reason the new Danish minister of the interior said she’d ‘rather invest in cycle tracks than freeways,’ is that only one of those has a positive return.” [photo: Ben]
From Copenhagen’s biannual Bicycle Account | Grist
Enjoying this; expect more excepts from it.
OK I SWEAR I’M GOING TO START BIKING THIS SUMMER
even though i will probably die immediately :(](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1yycymnbm1qzprlbo1_r1_500.png)
“Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people [the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet], saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80 percent of its population commutes by bicycle, even in winter. That’s $300 per person per year.
Clearly, the reason the new Danish minister of the interior said she’d ‘rather invest in cycle tracks than freeways,’ is that only one of those has a positive return.” [photo: Ben]
From Copenhagen’s biannual Bicycle Account | Grist
Enjoying this; expect more excepts from it.
OK I SWEAR I’M GOING TO START BIKING THIS SUMMER
even though i will probably die immediately :(
(via harboured)
