A fun diversion as I'm working on the next video. I finally found a use for the collection of images and photos I saved over the years.
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The two videos from Prague Hates Cyclists:
https://twitter.com/praguecycling/status/1710000410499387459
https://twitter.com/praguecycling/status/1698628453224915443
The audio is from this video by@DrWhite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3p_VuPIS2c&ab_channel=DrWhite
(I asked for his permission in advance, no need to @ hbomberguy)
It’s just not destined to ever be a ‘bike w/out 2 operating brakes’ city. Unless the hill grades are 20% I suppose. But even then an argument could be made against cars since hills drastically reduce their efficiency.
Hmm fair point. But even if you have breaks the average person doesn’t want to have to bike uphill all the time and even so the city is too vast for biking to be time-effective. Most people use the tram network instead (which goes up the hills)
Just to illustrate this is what the hills over here look like:
I think Prague was just not destined to be a bike city. Even if the bike lanes were perfect, You’ve still got a ton of hills in all directions
It’s just not destined to ever be a ‘bike w/out 2 operating brakes’ city. Unless the hill grades are 20% I suppose. But even then an argument could be made against cars since hills drastically reduce their efficiency.
Hmm fair point. But even if you have breaks the average person doesn’t want to have to bike uphill all the time and even so the city is too vast for biking to be time-effective. Most people use the tram network instead (which goes up the hills)
Just to illustrate this is what the hills over here look like: