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How Cycling Can Save the World

Peter Walker—reporter at the Guardian and curator of its popular bike blog—shows how the future of humanity depends on the bicycle. Car culture has ensnared much of the world—and it's no wonder. Convenience and comfort

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“A study [...] around a fifteen-block area of Los Angeles found the average person drove half a mile looking for parking, making for a combined annual 950,000 wasted vehicle miles [per year] in just that area. “If all this happens in one small business district, imagine the cumulative effect of all c…”

— Peter Walker, amazon.com

Tagged: Cycling, Transportation, Mobility, Bicycling Quote, Everyday cycling

“The deeply unjust truth is that in thousands of cities, from London to New York to Shanghai to Delhi, transport is mainly built around cars, and thus explicitly for the benefit of the richer-than-average minority who disproportionately own them.”

— Peter Walker, amazon.com

Tagged: Cycling, Transportation, Mobility, Bicycling Quote, Everyday cycling

“Right now, drivers pay to enjoy mobility, but the cost to the environment and to people’s health isn’t fully reflected in the price we pay to drive.”

— Peter Walker, amazon.com

Tagged: Cycling, Transportation, Mobility, Bicycling Quote, Everyday cycling

“The bicycle is a tool to change the city.”

— Peter Walker, amazon.com

Tagged: Cycling, Transportation, Mobility, Bicycling Quote, Everyday cycling

“Effective speed” means, in its simplest form, considering a vehicle’s speed as also being a factor of its cost, and thus how long we need to work to pay for it.”

— Peter Walker, amazon.com

Tagged: Cycling, Transportation, Mobility, Bicycling Quote, Everyday cycling

“Obligatory helmet use reinforces the notion that cycling isn’t an everyday way to get about, but a specialist pursuit needing safety equipment, which makes it less appealing.”

— Peter Walker, amazon.com

Tagged: Cycling, Transportation, Mobility, Bicycling Quote, Everyday cycling