This last paragraph should be posted on every street corner and garage forecourt ....
More seriously, though, the bicycle
cannot go anywhere and must form part
of our future. At the moment there is an
incredible research effort to design better
cars for the future. None of these efforts
address the fundamental design flaws of
the car. Even if somebody came up with
a car that runs off angels’ sighs and never
crashes, it would still encourage
sprawling urban planning, bad land use
(especially for parking) and would still
encourage its owner to get fat and
unhealthy. The population is rising; we
don’t have the space to accommodate
more and more cars and we have some
serious population health issues. More
cycling solves a swathe of problems at
a stroke, and all it requires is a simple
machine that most people already have
lying around their home somewhere.
