A recent UCLA study reveals the potential for improved biking and walking infrastructure in U.S. cities, referencing successful global examples, including Hoboken and Osaka. By equipping a greater proportion of streets with bike lanes similar to Copenhagen's, researchers found a potential reduction of nearly 6% in global vehicle emissions. This advocates for a broader approach to urban planning that prioritizes active transportation, suggesting that local improvements could yield substantial climate benefits on a global scale, challenging complacency in climate advocacy.
"We often think about walking and biking and related modes being planned locally, which absolutely is the case - but the benefits could be global if we scale them up."
"If every community in the study's sample of 11,587 cities in 121 countries were to outfit the same proportion of their streets with bike lanes as cycling-crazy Copenhagen, the researchers found that global emissions from motor vehicles would plunge by nearly 6 percent."
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