A quote from an article, titled "King of the Road," in the International
Herald Tribune:
What planners generally have discovered is that a little money spent on
cycling infrastructure can go a long way, even though it may take time to
produce results and they are not often easy to track statistically.
Roel of Wittink, director of Interface for Cycling Expertise, a research
organization in Utrecht, the Netherlands, said that Bogotá's investments
in cycling infrastructure eventually produced savings roughly seven times
greater. Largely, this resulted from better utilization of urban space
and fromsavings stemming from a slowdown in traffic flow.
Viewed from another perspective, his organization cited studies showing
that about 6 percent of funds spent in the Netherlands on road
infrastructure were devoted to the bicycle, although it accounted for
more than 25 percent of all journeys.
Read the entire article;
http://tinyurl.com/5vmkfy
Posted to Bicycle-fixation by
Richard Risemberg
http://www.bicyclefixation.com
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