“There is a meditative quality to being on a bicycle. You must focus on the chaos that seems to envelop you. Drivers cut you off, swerving into the bike lane. Pedestrians insist on standing in the road while waiting for the light to change.”— Elaisha Stokes, nytimes.com
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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