Brent Toderian
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

One mile on a bike is a $.42 e...
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss

Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.

Grist
Feb 23 at 5:48amWeb
Show threadNafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦Feb 23
Another one of those "count up everything good you can about bikes and everything bad you can about cars, and never the inverse". As if the reason that so many people prefer cars is that they're ignorant and don't even know what makes up their own quality of life, and bikes are powered by magic.
Show threadNafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦Feb 23
Re, the latter, since so many people still seem to believe that: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Re: 0.13kg CO2e/100km for cycling: The average passenger vehicle emissions in the EU are just over 0.1kg, probably under 0.1kg within the next few years. Cycling is also far more injury-prone per km.
Show threadNafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦Feb 23
(And would still be even if you removed all nonessential vehicle traffic from the roads)