… just technology a century and a half old, and it is called the bicycle. Cycling England has calculated that “making a £70m annual investment in cycling initiatives the government could cut up to 54m car journeys a year by 2012 and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 35,000 tonnes”.
But to really make it happen, what you have to do is go back not quite to the start of the bicycle, but certainly the best part of a century, and make the roads, at least the small city and suburban roads, do what they were originally designed to do – get people around by foot and slow transport (then animal, now bicycle), and made motor vehicles a highly restricted, rare form of transport, used only when strictly necessary, for the disabled and for transport of goods that can’t practically be carried any other way.
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