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“The worst effects of breathing polluted air are experienced where it is densest: in traffic. Spending time on and near highways, freeways, and other busy roads is terrible for your health. How near is a question that is still being studied, but researchers believe that the effects are worst within either a fifth or a third of a mile. People in cars or buses are exposed to considerably more air pollution, perhaps because of, rather than despite, being in a closed space. People walking and bicycling on or next to roads breathe more air, but inhale somewhat less pollution; and cyclists have been found to have even less risk if they are on paths that are separated from the road.”
― Elly Blue, Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy

“The primary causes of unhappiness? Having a bad commute. If you have a job, the drive there is the most stressful thing you’ll do on any given day. And people with particularly long car commutes are more likely to be depressed, have a mental health breakdown, and even get divorced.”
― Elly Blue, Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories in Extreme Futures

“И да будет ведо­мо тем, у кого в обы­чае вос­тор­гать­ся недоз­во­лен­ной дер­зо­стью по отно­ше­нию к наде­лен­ным вер­хов­ною вла­стью, что и при дур­ных прин­цеп­сах могут суще­ст­во­вать выдаю­щи­е­ся мужи и что послу­ша­ние и скром­ность, если они соче­та­ют­ся с трудо­лю­би­ем и энер­ги­ей, достой­ны не мень­шей сла­вы, чем та, кото­рую мно­гие снис­ка­ли реши­тель­но­стью сво­его поведе­ния и сво­ею впе­чат­ля­ю­щей, но бес­по­лез­ной для государ­ства смер­тью.”
― Tacitus

“If you ignored all other economic and community benefits of bicycling, the factor of health alone is more than enough reason to invest hundreds of times as much as we currently do into retrofitting our entire country to be a bicycling paradise.”
― Elly Blue, Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy