There is the argument floating around here that adding extra road width for cyclists would “damage” the environment by increasing impervious surface. Which to me is like being next to a coal burning power plant and then pointing to the guy that just dropped a banana peal in the dirt as the “polluter.”
But just when you thought bicycling could not get any greener a Dutch company came up with the idea of combining storm water management and a cycle path. So not only does it make the impervious surface for cars more environmentally friendly cyclists get their extra road width.
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