Cycling: Is it time to swap four wheels for two?

[Alex321]

The M6 Toll and Severn motorway bridges say hello!

Not since 2018 on the Severn Bridges. Not sure whether the tolls ever actually generated enough to pay for the construction and maintenance of eth bridges.

 

[Bristolian]

Because if we judge a transport system based mainly on private motor vehicles by the same standards we judge every other form of transport, it would show how very ridiculous it is. It starts in the way spending millions per metre of motorways is handwaved as "investment", but spending on railways is "subsidy", and has to show a "return": if motorways had to generate a "return" they'd never be built.
In the same way a council that needs an excuse not to build a cycleway will demand an "environmental assessment" that that has standards any road would fail.

Here in the UK there has to be an ROI in the justification for new motorways and major A roads. The calculation is both complex and convoluted and, in some of the cases I've seen, a total guestimation but it is still there.

 

[mjr]

Here in the UK there has to be an ROI in the justification for new motorways and major A roads. The calculation is both complex and convoluted and, in some of the cases I've seen, a total guestimation but it is still there.

Only some of the cases? 😲