Hello again. My name is Elena and I live in the fairly urban city of Houston, Texas. I like to use my bicycle as transportation, but when there is no sidewalk commute can be a bit dangerous. I feel like biking lanes on our highways and roads are a great solution. In addition to reducing carbon emissions bike lanes would decrease traffic on roads. It would definitely be a time consuming and expensive process, but I think in the end it would pay off. When I calculated my carbon footprint I was shocked to find out that the average Texan’s transportation footprint is 6387kg. Maybe if we invested in bike lanes we could change that. What do you all think about instituting bicycling lanes?
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Elena S-usa, Nov. 13, 2012
Althea B, May 4, 2012
Hello! In my city, there are bike lanes in the roads and some bike paths to make it safer for people who want to travel that way. Just think if there were an equal amount of bike paths to roads! Do you think this would help people realise that there are other commuting options that don’t emit carbon into our atmospere?
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Anton Eckerbom Oct. 2, 2012
Bike lanes are for sure a great suggestion and in Sweden that exists in the whole country. As a result of this, the amount of people who take the bike to work is increasing whilst the car travellers are decreasing. This could also be a result of what we call “congestion tax”. This is a sort of camera tollgate which takes a sum every time you enter the core city. This has decreased the amount of cars and increased the amount of bikers and people taking the bus or the metro, but lately travelling with metro or bus has become so expensive that even more take their bikes! :D -
Emily F-United States Oct. 5, 2012
Wow, the “congestion tax” sounds like a very interesting program. Penalizing people for overusing their car may significantly reduce traffic and emissions. However, to make this program even more effective, how about using the collected money to give incentive to non-emission vehicles, such as bicycles? For example, subsidizing bike share companies like those in Portland Oregon, Montreal, or Stockholm. -
Anton Eckerbom Oct. 5, 2012
Indeed, hopefully the government feels so too! I think they reinvest the money into that but you can never be sure w/ politics :)
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