Europe's pop-up cycleways result in financial health benefits, finds new study.
. Marked out with traffic cones, the cycleway was put in place to help key workers cycling to and from Leicester Royal Infirmary during the coronavirus lockdown. Days later the cycleway was extended for an additional 500 meters.—went on to build even more emergency cycleways.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan feared that the collapse in transit use would lead to more use of private cars when lockdown was eased, which would have led to gridlock on the roads of the U.K.’s capital. The new cycleways were necessary to “accommodate a possible ten-fold increase in cycling,” claimed Khan in May.
“If people switch only a fraction of these journeys to cars, London risks grinding to as halt, air quality worse, and road danger will increase,” stated Khan. to English local authorities suggesting that “work can begin at pace on closing roads to through traffic, installing segregated cycle lanes and widening [sidewalks].”
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