How Cycling Can Save the World Paperback – April 4, 2017

Should be mandatory reading for all city planners. Walker lays down cogent fact based arguments for ways to design cities so bike and cars coexist, not compete. His data on the health effects of cycling are excellent. I'm a time when we a looking for enhancements to population health and social determinants of health,the bicycle offers a fantastic solution of only we better design our cities' infrastructure.

I'm a longtime bike commuter and cycling advocate. After you've read a few books about the topics you start to think "allright, I've got this." After the first chapter I thought this book would be more of the same but I was pleasantly surprised! Well written in an easy prose, I learned some good stuff from this book!

This book is a manifesto for promoting the use of bikes for being healthy and happy and demanding governments and cities to provide safe bike lanes. The author praises cities that have provided such safe bike lanes. One of the praised cities is New York, where along Manhattan avenues there are safe lanes physically separated from the cars. I live in NY. Almost no one uses these lanes (the only users are delivery persons), and most of the share-bike stations are full of unused bikes. The bikes are used mainly for cycling in Central Park (but not along NY streets and avenues).

Wasn't sure what to expect but what i got was an excellent review on the policies that have been proven and shown to work to improve the world of a lot of our modern problems. If you have any kind of interest in how policy is able to change the world and how that relates to cycling, this is the book for you.

As a resident of Minneapolis, I can personally attest to the benefits of cycling infrastructure in our city. Great book to read.

Thank you, Mr. Walker! The author simply and clearly lays out the argument for affordable and safe transportation via the bicycle. His strong and cogent arguments should get us all biking more and encourage our cities and towns to take the simple steps needed to make cycling more ubiquitous and safe!

A great book for people who enjoy bicycling and how it can transform our communities. This book is filled with lots of research into global and local interest in changing how we transport ourselves.

This is one of those books you read and think that each passage is one of your own thoughts just expressed better. The author's journalist background shines through with beautifully worded prose.Let's just hope his prediction of the future happens as quickly as foretold.