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- Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.
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I was so confused with your comment until i remembered there are countries without bike lanes. Still weird to claim them the same size as a van
Are you high? I live in Denmark, a country that has a high amount of bikes, and I see tons of those cargo bikes on the bike lanes each day. Parents bringing their kids to daycare, postal workers bringing letters and parcels, landlords bringing all their tools between apartment complexes around the city. Possibilities are endless.
You need to get out if your basement, mate. They are right now transporting lots of stuff on bikes. The fact that you can't be arsed to even look up pictures from other parts of the world and still stubbornly reject other realities than your own says more about you than me.
So, dream on, your car-centric "utopia" doesn't exist.
Already happened here, vans aren't even allowed to stop here. It works and the city is less congested.
The Randstad in the Netherlands, but Belgium is closely following.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakfiets
You post a picture of a bike that's as wide as its handlebar, which is not wider than a regular bike which also has to have enough space to fit its handlebars through and claim it is too wide for a bike lane. Also visible on this picture is a backpack, a grocery bag and a lot of empty space in the cargo-hold and claim it only has space for the backpack and a grocery bag. I feel it is not worth it to argue with you at all since you don't seem to argue in good faith. Disappointing
This is an extra wide one, the picture description is complaining that it takes the whole one-direction bike lane (that's a third of a road lane).
Well yes, a single lane is defined as at least 3.65 meters, while a bike lane can't be wider than 1.70 meters, so it's 2.14 lanes of bikes for each car at the very least, but it's mostly more since bikes can turn tighter and don't need as much space for intersections.