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.
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