Thursday, August 10, 2017

"Forget all the other reasons you should be riding a bike. This is the one that matters"


"Forget all the other reasons you should be riding a bike. This is the one that matters"


Data from 263,450 participants - it's a meaningful number.

"This British study took a comprehensive look at the health benefits of bicycle commuting, and the results are staggering. Over the course of the study, the 263,450 subjects who were under review had a 41 per cent lower chance of death than those who didn’t. “Cycle commuters had a 52 per cent lower risk of dying from heart disease and a 40 per cent lower risk of dying from cancer. They also had 46 per cent lower risk of developing heart disease and a 45 per cent lower risk of developing cancer at all,” the study’s authors wrote."

So why don't we have protected bike lanes in Burlington?




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