The book tells the stories of people, businesses, organizations, and cities who are investing in two-wheeled transportation. The book starts with a look at the real transportation costs of families and individuals, and moves on to examine the current civic costs of our transportation system. To conclude: this book is an absolute read if you are into sustainability, urban planning, healthcare, transportation… I hope this will spur an increase in the speed of the takeover of cycling in our cities.Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economyīikenomics provides a surprising and compelling new perspective on the way we get around and on how we spend our money, as families and as a society. So far, this is a success here as the Seattle Weekly reported but we will have to see how winter and pouring rains impact them. These systems are cheaper to maintain and expand than regular ones and could thus spread biking over large urban areas. The second recent promising evolution of biking is dockless sharing systems like the ones that have started to pop up this summer in Seattle, WA. I was reading a customer review on Amazon from a guy who went from 300 to 200 pounds (136 to 90 kgs) in a year just by starting biking with an electric assist. For someone who is not the fittest but still wants to start biking, such systems are a boon. I hope the author will do so to take into account the new studies published on the benefits of biking as well as how this transportation is taking over the world and evolving.Īmong the recent evolutions that are very promising to the expansion of biking are electric bikes systems, with an electric wheel costing as little as $200. The only negative thing I would say about this book is that I wish it were updated (it was published in late 2013 and a lot happened in the field in three years). Her passion for ” la petite reine” is endearing and communicative. She indeed has been writing for and other websites on that very topic. Inequality and poverty (owning a car is just so expensive, over $10,000 per year)…įor each and every of these topics (and more), the author, Elly Blue, brings up-to-date facts and figures from examples around the world. She has been touring around the US and now the world to meet up with biking activitists and how they are bringing back bicycles to our cities.Healthcare with rising levels of obesity and diabetes due to lack of physical activity,.Road mortality (30,000+ every year in America),.While not a panacea to absolutely all our problems, biking could solve or help solve a laundry list of issues such as This is a short (less than 200 pages), very interesting book that outlines the many advantages and positive aspects of biking. Now that I have graduaded, I thought I could take the time. With so many bike enthusiasts in my grad school program, and a biker myself, I had planned to read this book for quite a while.

Bikenomics by elly blue