How Cycling Can Save the World

I'm a longtime bike commuter and cycling advocate. After you've read a few books about the topics you start to think "allright, I've got this." After the first chapter I thought this book would be more of the same but I was pleasantly surprised! Well written in an easy prose, I learned some good stuff from this book!

Well researched, extremely well written, and totally convincing. Anyone working on planning in cities and suburbs should be reading this book. And anyone who thinks they might want to start riding more regularly should read it too. No crazy tight bike outfit required.

This book is a manifesto for promoting the use of bikes for being healthy and happy and demanding governments and cities to provide safe bike lanes. The author praises cities that have provided such safe bike lanes. One of the praised cities is New York, where along Manhattan avenues there are safe lanes physically separated from the cars. I live in NY. Almost no one uses these lanes (the only users are delivery persons), and most of the share-bike stations are full of unused bikes. The bikes are used mainly for cycling in Central Park (but not along NY streets and avenues).

The title says it all. Very compelling and concisely written piece explaining the many reasons why us humans have to improve the urban infrastructure in a cycling friendly way

Should be mandatory reading for all city planners. Walker lays down cogent fact based arguments for ways to design cities so bike and cars coexist, not compete. His data on the health effects of cycling are excellent. I'm a time when we a looking for enhancements to population health and social determinants of health,the bicycle offers a fantastic solution of only we better design our cities' infrastructure.

As a resident of Minneapolis, I can personally attest to the benefits of cycling infrastructure in our city. Great book to read.

A great book for people who enjoy bicycling and how it can transform our communities. This book is filled with lots of research into global and local interest in changing how we transport ourselves.

Wasn't sure what to expect but what i got was an excellent review on the policies that have been proven and shown to work to improve the world of a lot of our modern problems. If you have any kind of interest in how policy is able to change the world and how that relates to cycling, this is the book for you.

This is a great book and more people need to read this. It will open your eyes to all the issues cycling can solve

Informative. Nice title and good cover !! a little bit boring for Dutch people. Cycling is healthy as well as 30 minutes walking. Cycling is practical provided you also have good public transport. It is not always sunny and you are not always dressed for cycling. Too much clyclist, experienced and inexperienced, on small bike lanes can be risky. E-bikes are useful for slightly longer distances and altitude difference.

This book is simply outstanding. It has given me the arguments and presented me with the research I need to resist the efforts of my town's burghers to turn the place into Detroit. I take issue with another reviewer that the book is somehow naive if it expects people to willingly make the modal shift to active forms of travel. Walker clearly states after an analysis of the Stevenage approach (cyclists' wet-dream, segregated cycleways which are quite under-used because it's easy to get around by car in fast-flowing traffic) that 'It is not enough that riding a bike must be safe and convenient; driving a car must at the same time be made less straightforward.'The guvmint's new Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy is a spectacular fail in this respect. It's all about encouraging cycling but contains nothing on discouraging car use (other than a bit of 'nudge' from its behavioural insights team). This of course is because according to this administration, the 'war on motorists' (what a risible idea) is apparently over. The war on the general population however, continues. My town (Wallingford) has had a designated Air Quality Management Area since 2005. In that time, local government has achieved nothing by way of improvement in air quality (actually, it's worse). In that time, over half a million people have died prematurely across the UK. Countless others have endured multiple long-term conditions as a result of the war on the people of the UK, who have to endure illegal levels of pollution. This book is highly recommended.Walker has clearly highlighted that modal share will continue to hover around 2% if all we do is build cycling and walking infrastructure but do nothing about restricting car use.

Packed with information useful for cycling advocates. All carefully annotated with footnotes listing the source. But at times it made me a bit scared to cycling. The important thing to remember is that while there is currently some risk when cycling due to poor or nonexistent cycling infrastructure, the health risks of being inactive are much higher.

I was amazed by this book and how so many problems could be solved, through simply using a bike more and a car less. I’ve put it into practice. No more congestion, arrive at work happier, use my car less and thinking of ditching it completely. I even quoted a few ideas from this book, at work and it helped me get a promotion. How do we solve problems like, health problems? Costs of car ownership? The battle with depression and countless other issues in the rise? All there in front of you, two wheels is better than any pill.