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People often are shocked these days when they saunter into bicycle shops expecting to see â you know â bikes.
Cycling shops and big-box stores across NWI and the nation no longer have showrooms filled with new mountain bikes, road bikes and kids bikes. The racks are largely bare, the selection sparse. We re got some kids bikes, some cruisers, said Kurt Agner with Ridge Cyclery at 3731 Ridge Road in Highland. But nothing s available. That s just how the market is right now. They can t produce them, and I ve read where the freight has quadrupled so they re not shipping them. We ve had to turn away people looking for bikes since last year.
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Jennifer Toole, ASLA, is the founder and President of Toole Design and has over 30 years of experience planning and designing multimodal transportation systems. A certified planner with a degree in landscape architecture, Toole has a strong background in urban design. She has been involved in numerous projects of national significance for the Federal Highway Administration, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Jared Green (JG): In
, edited by Paul Hawken, bike infrastructure is identified as one of the top 80 solutions for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. The book finds that in 2014, 5.5 percent of urban trips worldwide were by bicycle. If that number grew to 7.5 percent by 2050, displacing some 2.2 trillion passenger miles completed by vehicles, some 2.2 gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions could be avoided, realizing approximately $400 billion savings over the next
On Wednesday the Capital Trails Coalition released a report coming to a shocking conclusion: trails are good, actually.
Prepared by ESI Solutions and published by the coalition of organizations such as the Washington Area Bicyclists Association and the Rails to Trails Conservancy, the report outlines and quantifies the economic, health, and environmental benefits of completing the network.
According to the report, not only is the region growing and widely supportive of trails, but the COVID-19 pandemic has also sent demand skyrocketing and 53% of those surveyed by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments said they expect to walk more post-pandemic.
A map of the Capitl Trails Network from the Captial Trails Coalition report.