Published on June 16th, 2008
Bicycling it isn’t always easy. Busy streets, honking horns, and inadequate city funding for bike lanes and paths can make bicycling an uphill battle. However, with green in the news, the economy in a slump, and summer on its way, it’s getting easier to find reasons why there are some 1.4 billion bicycles and only about 400 million cars in the world today.(from: http://www.number27.org/work/maps/transportation.jpg)This week, EcoWorldly authors from six continents contributed articles on bicycling in their country. With exerpts from those articles and others in the blogosphere, here are seventeen very good reasons to bicycle no matter where you live. Click the headings as you go to read more.
- The number one thing on most carowner’s minds these days is the price of oil.
- Bicycling can make you healthy and hot… er… hotter.
- Old bicycles can be modified and made into useful tools.
- Bicycling builds social groups and better community development.
- Bicycling may encourage the breakdown of economic divides.
- Bicycles are versitile machines with many uses.
- By reducing air pollution, bicycling instead of driving also reduces rates of asthma and lung disease.
- Bicycling saves Australia nearly a quarter billion dollars in health costs each year.
- Bicycles require significantly less space than cars.
- In some places, with a little modification, a single bicycle can be a business.
- Bicycles are efficient vehicles.
- Bicycling could save the average American at least $250 thousand.
- A bicycle crash alone isn’t likely to kill you.
- Bicyclists breath in less air pollution.
- Bicycles are zero-emission vehicles.
- Bicycling provides a social network.
- By fostering energy independence, bicycling voids incentives for oil wars.
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