More Bikes Than Cars

Twice in the last two weeks I have been a part of a lovely thing.  While riding to work I look around and see way…way more bikes than cars.   I think it is a product of the lovely riding weather we have been having, the increase in ridership, the infrastructure, and an overall shift in mode share.  It was Utopian, it felt good to outnumber the cars, it made me feel powerful, and safer.

There were perhaps 25 cyclists, and maybe 10 cars on the road, and yet the cars still monopolized most of the space, but the cyclists had carved out most of the right hand lane, and were in large enough numbers that we could hold it easily.  Traffic moved much better, and many more people were able to travel on the limited amount of streets available.

That is after all what streets are for, they are a public utility designed to move people around.  It just so happens that the most popular way to use them (one person in one car), is the worst way to use that public utility.  But that seems be changing.

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