This short film is amazing.
http://www.streetfilms.org
Do you think this could ever happen in the UK ?
http://www.streetfilms.org
Do you think this could ever happen in the UK ?
I was in Copenhagen last month and their cycling infrastructure is impressive. As I did not have a bike with me, I was walking a fair bit and to we uneducated eejits, it is very easy to get flattened by cyclists as we are so unaccustomed to having bikes ride on what essentially is the pavement.
Anyway, in answer to your question...............when hell freezes over!
But 'peak oil' is a moving goalpost. We've had 20 years oil left for the last 20 years, as extraction techniques improve (disasters not withstanding) and increased prices make uneconomic techniques economic. It's not impossible that we'll still have 20 years' supply left 20 years from now.I think we may be nearer to this than you think. When the authorities eventually admit that we have passed peak oil
Population density is probaby the issue. London has a population about 6 times that of Copenhagen which wouldn't necessarily be a problem in a city 6 times the area. (Though the fact that most of them seem to want to be in the same 3 square miles at 9am every day might be...)
London, according to the internet, so it must be true, has a population density of about 4300 people per km2, whereas Copenhagen as a whole has 641.
Happily I avoid London as much as possible, but when I am forced to go there deosn't seem to be a lot of space to be building nice, wide cycle lane on the sides of the roads.