![]() ![]() "In Bikenomics, Elly Blue powerfully demonstrates the economic benefits of making streets complete again, especially by investing in infrastructure to support the bicycle as a mode of transportation. It gives cycling advocates the talking points they need to show that the bicycle revolution is just common sense in action." –Peter Norton, author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City Bikenomics is fact-based but personal, serious but fun, well-researched but readable. ![]() Like Tom Paine, Blue set out to show how truths we were raised to believe-streets are for cars, bicycling is an intrusion, cars predominate because they make economic good sense-are really assumptions that defy common sense. “Elly Blue has written the Common Sense for the bicycling revolution. It's a future, I realized, I'd really like to see." - The Portland Mercury "Blue's book helped me better frame my own reasons for riding, and got me thinking a lot about what a more bike-centered future could look like. "Blue's book is rational, fully footnoted-and, in the main, persuasive." - Fast Company And she does it with a witty, persuasive voice that makes this refreshingly jargon-free book a pleasure to read."-Alissa Walker, Urbanism Editor, Gizmodo Elly Blue makes a compelling case for reconnecting with your community in a very authentic way. ![]() " Bikenomics will make you wonder how cities ever decided to plan for cars in the first place. ![]()
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