A plan to put 10,000 electric vehicles (EVs) on the streets of Amsterdam in five years has met with fierce resistance from an unlikely quarter - the city's famed body of cyclists.
Cyclists say that the promotion of EVs will diminish the status of the bike, swallowing up a large portion of the 550,000 parking spots currently used by cyclists and encouraging a more sedentary lifestyle.
According to research conducted by the city, cyclists are responsible for a full 55 percent of all movement within the centre of Amsterdam. However, transport planners want a big increase in EV use over the next five years, rising to 40,000 EVs trundling over its cobbled streets by 2020.
Cycle lobby groups are understandably concerned that a carbon-neutral way of getting round the city, proven for many years, will have to make way for a vehicle which is less environmentally-friendly.
"We are afraid. If you add more parking spaces, you get more cars," said Marjolein de Lange, a member of the cycling union Fietsersbond, "We think the cleanest means of transport is the bike. Definitely." *
* Do Amsterdam's cyclists have a point? Or will they just have to budge up and share? Let us know!
disagree, I think outside of this website I would not have heard of the case at all.
if you can find manufacturers that do a wdie fitting then you don't need to upsize. I think Shimano and lakes do some ranges with a wide version
now imagine the train is not on rails but free to take a slightly different line
I don't follow you - why would 28" wheels be faster than 26"?...
Sorry, should have made it clear. It is appaling driving and should have been prosecuted as dangerous. Just putting forward a cynics view as to...
True indeed, have done lots of shopping like that!
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That's just for disc brakes though. Stops them squeaking
The ultra-slow-motion, close-up replay of Tadej’s front wheel tire puncture and low-speed crash may be the beginning of the end for hookless wheels...
I'd anticipate that the busier junctions aren't that appropriate for cycling through red lights, but I do encounter plenty of less busy junctions...