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For every mile we don't drive, our air gets a little bit cleaner. There are many ways to drive less- walking, biking, taking transit, telecommuting, carpooling, and more. Driving less can also save you money and improve your emotional and physical health. Working from home has been gaining popularity and may offer other benefits such as improved productivity.

The narrower tires, the more vibrations

Wider tires performe as well as the narrower ones, but they definitely perform better on rough roads

Conclusion of a debunked mth: Wide tires are NOT slower than the narrower ones

Examples of this sort of non-logical behaviour used to represent identity can be found in fiction in:

• Dr. Seuss' The Butter Battle Book (Random House,1984) which is based on
• the war between Lilliput and Blefuscu in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satire Gulliver's Travels, which was based on an argument over the correct end to crack an egg once soft-boiled.

It almost seems related to creating identity politics as bike-shedding because the real issues are so complex that most people can't grasp all the nuances, so it's easier to choose sides based on some completely other heuristic. Changing sides later on causes too much cognitive dissonance, so once on a path, one must stick to it.

Can the Bike Boom Keep Going? (2020, October 29). Bloomberg.Com. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-29/how-the-feds-could-keep-the-bike-boom-rolling

• 10-30 kph (under 18 mph): no separation necessary
• 30-50 kph (18-31 mph): painted bike lanes to the right of the parking lane
• 50-70 kph (31-43 mph): curb-separated bike lanes to the right of the parking lane
• 70+ kph (over 43 mph): full median-separated bike lanes

Miami pilots e-cargo bikes to reduce congestion, pollution. (n.d.). Smart Cities Dive. Retrieved May 25, 2020, from https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/miami-e-cargo-bike-pilot-dhl-city-congestion-pollution/578115/