Families switch cars for cargo bikes for daily commute as cost of living continues to bite
www.abc.net.au
Since getting a bike over a year ago, Alice Humble and her family have saved $800 in petrol. They're one of many households choosing cycling as car running costs increase.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13929272

So, what’s the take away here ? make it so expensive to live people choose cycling and we get better cities ?

  • AllNewTypeFaceEnglish
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    2 months ago

    There is no reason why they shouldn’t be, other than a car-is-king mindset stemming from a rusted-on bootleg version of the American Dream imported in the Menzies era. Physics and geography work the same in Australia as in Denmark and the Netherlands, and there is enough urban density, at least in the Victorian-era cores of cities, to make cycling as transport viable.