It’s Love to Ride month and week three explores the environment benefits of cycling. Bikerader estimates that “if cycling’s popularity returned to 1940s levels (when the average Brit cycled six times further per year than today) and these trips replaced car journeys, that would create a net saving of 7.7-million tons of CO2 per year in the UK.”
Other environment benefit of cycling include:
- No carbon emissions
- Reduced congestion
- No noise pollution
- More cyclists = less need to develop roads, saving our green spaces
- No idling engines
Not to mention that cycling will save you money and improve both your mental and physical health, what could be better?!
For more information about swapping your car for a bike go to the Love to Ride website.