The War on Cars“You don’t have to be on a bike to appreciate a bike-friendly city. Streets teeming with bicycles are much, much quieter than streets crammed with cars.”
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CelloMom On CarsEngineers will tell you: where there's noise, there's wear.
Car noise is mostly tire noise.
Car tires wear into .... microplastics.
Cars are one of the largest sources of ocean microplastics, and since humans are part of the web of life, we also ingest those microplastic particles.
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(Yes, bicycle tires wear too. A lot less though: they're skinny, and carry a lot less weight).
Pedestriansfirst
Tobias Denkinger@pedestrians1st
We could start making them again, but I am not sure about the comfort; especially for longer trips.
We could also start making bikes without rubber tires again.
@CelloMomOnCars @TheWarOnCars
Re: bikes without tires:
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Might as well go back to the horse, their hooves would be as loud but at least they keep you warm.
@pedestrians1st
Bikes are way cheaper than horses though. An if you are cold riding a bike, you just need to ride faster 😉
@CelloMomOnCars @TheWarOnCars
Bikes are way cheaper than horses though. An if you are cold riding a bike, you just need to ride faster 😉
@CelloMomOnCars @TheWarOnCars
@pedestrians1st
True.
We could just build non-polluting factories though.
For the cost of a horse (including the space necessary to hold the animal and produce food for it), we could build bikes entirely by hand.
We could even build simple bikes ourselves (without much knowledge in crafts).
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