"Promoting Safer and Sustainable Transportation: Lessons from Cycling Eden"

Cities worldwide have developed bikeways with new urgency since 2020, as millions of people turned to cycling during the pandemic. Many cities have seized the opportunity to expand safe cycling, with some steps phasing out as the virus has faded, but many have stuck, thanks to an increase in lanes with permanent barriers against traffic, central arteries where cars can’t go, and other concessions to a pent-up demand to get around without gas. Environmental concerns have also been a motivation for many people to ditch cars for bikes, a choice that researchers say has clear benefits in reducing carbon emissions and curbing pollution.