Cycling for Everyone

1. Cycling for Everyone:
Lessons for Vancouver
from the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany
John Pucher and Ralph Buehler
Rutgers University
(http://policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/pucher.html)
Pucher and Buehler: Cycling for Everyone

2. Reasons for everyone to support cycling:
•Improved mobility options for everyone
•Improved traffic safety and more livable
neighborhoods
•More daily physical activity and improved health
•Reduced air, water, and ground pollution; less noise;
less disruption of natural ecosystems
•Reduced traffic congestion, parking needs, energy use
•Reduced Greenhouse Gases (remember Kyoto?)
Pucher and Buehler: Cycling for Everyone