… Dan Gibson … said while he was up against some "orthodoxy in the community,” he believes the city shouldn’t be encouraging winter cycling because it’s “not safe.”
Guelph’s unofficial bicycle mayor and GCAT board member Andrea Bidgood took to social media, dubbing herself Guelph’s orthodox bicycle mayor.
“Vision Zero doesn’t discourage people from moving by a certain mode. It demands we make movement safe,” Bidgood said in one post. “Winter cycling is only ‘unsafe’ when the city chooses not to maintain safe conditions. Not maintaining infrastructure and then blaming the people who use it is the opposite of Vision Zero.”
There was a city in Europe which reduced weather related accident hospital visits by a significant amount by prioritizing side streets over arterial routes. I imagine the results would be extended by (after creating in the first place of course, may John Forester rest in piss) maintaining bicycle paths in priority over cars.
Yeah, I believe I saw that about the Netherlands. I think Montreal in Canada also closes off residential streets to vehicle traffic in the summer in some areas. Such an awesome idea! Residential streets are for the residents, not the out-of towners trying to speed up their commute time!