A bunch of climate change protesters shut down a major city interchange during the last half term. Three main routes were closed for a whole week.
It was wonderful — who knows if there’s any unbiased truth to it but it certainly felt like there was a huge reduction in stress cycling around. Even where it’s perfectly safe to interact with cars — bike and pedestrian route in the park quickly crossing a road into another park on the other side — it was just such a relief not to have to eye roll at the traffic jumping the lights as they turn red or be glared at by angry van drivers who had to stop for the hippy on his push bike!
It feels a bit like that now. Even more so really with the grater number of cyclists I see at all different times of the day (I’m out on the bike more than most, doing PPE deliveries.)
It was wonderful — who knows if there’s any unbiased truth to it but it certainly felt like there was a huge reduction in stress cycling around. Even where it’s perfectly safe to interact with cars — bike and pedestrian route in the park quickly crossing a road into another park on the other side — it was just such a relief not to have to eye roll at the traffic jumping the lights as they turn red or be glared at by angry van drivers who had to stop for the hippy on his push bike!
It feels a bit like that now. Even more so really with the grater number of cyclists I see at all different times of the day (I’m out on the bike more than most, doing PPE deliveries.)