Brent ToderianDec 3, 2022

The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the right math on investing in better mobility.

Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it.

#CityMakingMath, hat tip to @modacitylife for their excellent books!

Show threadProScience 🇪🇺
@BrentToderian @modacitylife Would love to have sources for these numbers (i.e. for the €19bn - these won't be annually) to use in my regular "pro bike" arguments I have with fossil fuel addicts. TIA! 😀
Dec 3, 2022 at 10:41amWeb
Show threadJeroenDec 3, 2022
@proscience @BrentToderian @[email protected] t For scientific pro-bike research see https://urbancyclinginstitute.com
Urban Cycling Institute – Bringing Cycling Research from Science to Practice and Back

Show threadProScience 🇪🇺Dec 3, 2022
@yuroon @BrentToderian @modacitylife Thanks!!
Show threaddragonfrogDec 3, 2022

@proscience @BrentToderian @modacitylife the € 0.6 billion investment and the €19 billion benefits are both annual.

Here's the study

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4504332/#__ffn_sectitle

Dutch Cycling: Quantifying the Health and Related Economic Benefits

The Netherlands is well known for their high bicycle use. We used the Health Economic Assessment Tool and life table calculations to quantify the population-level health benefits from Dutch cycling levels. Cycling prevents about 6500 deaths each year, ...

PubMed Central (PMC)
Show threadProScience 🇪🇺Dec 4, 2022
@dragonfrog @BrentToderian @modacitylife Awesome, thanks!