Despite saving hundreds of dollars and even making new friends, none of the people who agreed to ditch their car for this Brisbane experiment wanted to go car-free permanently. This is why.
Article about an experiment from Brisbane, Australia.
In places where biking is well established as a way to get around, people think they don’t need safety gear. But, when a city doesn’t have a lot of bike infrastructure, cars are going to be constantly driving way too close to bikers.
Most people don’t wear special clothes to ride their bikes.
Those aren’t pictures from Brisbane.
In places where biking is well established as a way to get around, people think they don’t need safety gear. But, when a city doesn’t have a lot of bike infrastructure, cars are going to be constantly driving way too close to bikers.
This is an image that’s actually from Brisbane:
Or you could have gone with this one:
From this story: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-11/many-busy-brisbane-cycling-routes-make-no-allowance-for-riders/12862402