[sustran] Why Asia is a Hub for Bikes (WSJ)

[Sarath Guttikunda]

Wall Street Journal, May 21st, 2012
Why Asia is a Hub for Bikes.
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/05/21/why-asia-is-a-hub-for-bikes

long article.. two paragraphs quoted below..

That’s ironically the opposite of what most transportation policy experts
advocate as the most obvious solution for China’s looming urban
transportation crisis, and that of major cities around the world: Turning
the clock back half a century and embracing the same solution that Mao and
his cadre stumbled upon, half a century back — bicycles, and lots of ‘em.

Bicycles are cheap, exhaust-free and easy to maintain. They’re practical
and elegant in a way that no other personal transportation can match; a
brilliantly spare assortment of neoclassical simple machines (wheels,
pulleys, levers) that produce the most energy-efficient means of travel
humans have ever invented.


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USA)*
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