Your cycling fallacy is…
“If I support cycling facilities, they’ll be terrible, and I’ll be forced to use them, which is even more dangerous”
The response
This is really an argument for demanding excellent facilities – not for demanding none at all!
Cycling should be a mode of transport available to everyone – the Netherlands and Denmark have demonstrated that this is possible.
To oppose good-quality cycling infrastructure is to condemn cycling to remain a niche mode of transport which is only available to a hardened minority – as has happened in the US and UK.
Furthermore, indifference or negativity towards cycling infrastructure has not stopped terrible facilities from being built.
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Fast cycling on good cycling infrastructure in Heusden, the Netherlands.
Photo by As Easy as Riding a Bike (Copyright, used with permission)
Vauxhall Bridge, London
A new cycleway in London, opened in 2015
Photo by As Easy as Riding a Bike (Copyright, used with permission)
A smooth, wide cycleway in Copenhagen, Denmark
Photo by The Alternative Department for Transport (Copyright, used with permission)
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Further reading
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Wie gute Radwege für Berlin aussehen können — Der Tagesspiegel -
Gefährliche Kreuzungen sicher umgestalten — Volksentscheid Fahrrad - Radwege an Hauptstraßen – sorgenfrei radeln — Volksentscheid Fahrrad
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