Tag: Biking vs Driving
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How Visually Interesting Places Make Travel More Enjoyable
Have you ever heard someone say that they enjoyed living on campus without a car in their college days? Or someone raving about spending a week at Disney World or some fancy European city? Similarly, you might wonder why it is fun going downtown or traveling through a dense, walkable neighborhood. Let’s do a quick…
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How to Improve Safety Biking by Picking the Right Road Infrastructure
Some people automatically decide biking is not for them because of safety concerns. However, the same people often don’t think twice about the risks of taking a car to go to work, school, or run an errand multiple times a day. Being in a car can be one of the most dangerous actions we do…
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Considerations of the Time Variable when Biking vs. Driving
It’s easy to jump to the conclusion that biking to daily tasks is too time consuming. To add to that, biking is slower speed than driving so it feels like travel is constrained for limited amount of time. We did a quick Travel Time app analysis to see which daily tasks (grocery, childcare/daycare, elementary school,…
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What is the 20-minute Neighborhood?
The 20-minute dinner. The 20-minute workout. Society is obsessed with getting things done in 20-minutes or less. It seems like an easy amount of time to squeeze in your busy day with time to spare. So what about the 20-minute neighborhood? It is a core concept described in Portland, Oregon’s 2009 Climate Action Plan where…