Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #2436 – June 14, 2022

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When bike parking is available at destinations, people are more likely to choose to ride to those places, and also to ride overall.

—ELLY BLUE, Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy, 2013


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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #2433 – June 11, 2022

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When there are more people bicycling on the roads, everyone becomes safer—not just people on bicycles, but people walking and driving as well.

—ELLY BLUE, Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy, 2013


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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #2424 – June 2, 2022

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When you make streets inviting, convenient, and comfortable for bicycling, people come ride on them in droves.

—ELLY BLUE, Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy, 2013


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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #2419 – May 28, 2022

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The easier and more intuitive it is to use our public streets on a bicycle, the more people will do it, and the easier it will be for all of us to get where we are going… and to breathe.

—ELLY BLUE, Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy, 2013


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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #2416 – May 25, 2022

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Bicycle infrastructure makes bicycling safer by two measures: first, by making bicycling a more attractive, convenient, and comfortable choice. Second, by providing clarity and often physical protection to reduce the chances of a car and bike colliding.

—ELLY BLUE, Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy, 2013


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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #2410 – May 19, 2022

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While it’s rather quaint to say that exercise is good for your mind and emotions, science is finding exactly that.

—ELLY BLUE, Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy, 2013


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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #2407 – May 16, 2022

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Bicycling has the potential to be a great equalizer. It requires only minor infrastructure investments and social shifts to be a powerful tool for us to redraw the lines in our society that determine far more than how we reach our destinations.

—ELLY BLUE, Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy, 2013


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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #2406 – May 15, 2022

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When you build bike paths and lanes, or design streets more subtly to be attractive places to bike, people drag their dusty bikes out of the garage and ride.

—ELLY BLUE, Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy, 2013


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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #2402 – May 11, 2022

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When neighborhoods become more walkable, with less parking and smaller roads, existing property values—and tax revenues—go up.

—ELLY BLUE, Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy, 2013


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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #2400 – May 9, 2022

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The bicycle is, at this moment in history, the rare tool that reminds us that we have the power to help ourselves and each other in exactly the ways that will allow us to face the worst of the disasters we find ourselves in.

—ELLY BLUE, Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy, 2013


Click to find over 2,000 additional Trail Quotes  arranged loosely into 60 subjects. I want the Trail Quotes to be a readable source for inspiring, challenging, and amusing information and knowledge; as well as a reliable, easy-to-use reference work for finding the precise wording, author, date, and source of the trail quotation.