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The anti-bike argument is strange when you consider the social and economic benefits.
As for the argument that bike lanes lead to automobile congestion, that seems absurd from a Beijinger's point of view.
Despite these findings, one of the main argument against bike deliveries in practise is an expected increase in travel time and, thus, working hours.
Virtually everything about the city's growing bike culture has prompted vigorous argument and even fury.
The usual not-in-my-back yard's (NIMBYs') argument against the bike lanes is also a strange one.
In response, some cyclists have handed out fake but realistic-looking summonses to drivers in bike lanes, leading at times to arguments.
One of the big arguments about the London bike routes was about the way the city needs to change to attract businesses.
But if not, if bikes too are tagged, the congestion argument doesn't hold - the motive then looks to be surveillance.
Whatever the consequences for bike sharing or public health, or arguments for making pedestrians wear helmets too, the fact remains in a bike crash any individual is better off with a helmet on.
It is not, for instance, an argument for hiking but against biking, or for walking but against swimming.
I won't go into the economics of all this, except to call attention to Ezra Klein's argument that in a crowded city like New York, bike lanes are good for car people as well as bike people and foot people.
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