If the bicycle is so good in city commuting, as the Greens say, why do they lose out to the car in developing countries?
Picture from To Be or Not to Be – Revival of Bicycles in China website: http://en.people.cn/90002/97224/
A new article looks at the history of bicycles in China: “Bicycle Evolution in China: From the 1900s to the Present,” International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Volume 8, Issue 5, 2014, by Hua Zhanga, Susan A. Shaheen & Xingpeng Chen.
The article is available for free until the end of April (or, later, through a library).
Abstract: This article examines four phases in bicycle evolution in China from initial entry and slow growth (1900s to 1978), to rapid growth (1978 to 1995), bicycle use reduction (1995 to 2002), and policy diversification (2002 to present). Two bicycle innovations, electric bikes, and public bikesharing (the shared use of a bicycle fleet), are also explored in this article. Electric bikes could provide a transitional mode on the pathway to bicycle and public transportation integration or…
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