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don't go to commercial
education in order to achieve a panacea
Cara I think you do know
the best thing about cycling in Tokyo is
the convenience you could go anywhere by
bicycle under 10 kilometers you can get
there faster by bicycle than you can by
train and definitely faster than you can
by private vehicle cycling in Tokyo is I
mean it's a very much everyday thing old
people young people everybody is on
bikes on weekends we can go to either
side west or east and hit the river and
then go on north and cut away from
downtown and if you write probably 2030
miles then you you meet the nature yeah
buddy I know opening a car an idea I
know what you need if I'm not stuck in
there and I put my key do you think I
must be the other one everything about
cycling in Tokyo is everybody cycles
it's not just a sport for the rich
people it's not a sport where you have
to buy a helmet and lycra and you don't
need a you know a thousand two thousand
dollar bicycle everybody cycles in
regular clothing they're not cycling to
get fit they're not cycling to save the
environment they're just cycling because
it makes sense it's the best way to get
around and that's why they do it
I arrived in Tokyo over 20 years ago I
came over for a year of work in that
plaintiff rolled on and on and on and
I've never looked back
and from that I slowly developed an
interest interest in cycling
infrastructure I realized there was a
paradox between the high number of
cyclists and the very poor
infrastructure it struck me as odd and I
began studying and then I got connected
to cyclists and mobility experts around
the world and I realized we could make a
change here in Tokyo we can really
really change things my normal cycling
would be from home to the gym or you
know about 8 10 K one route and then
back home or something like that
cycling in Tokyo generally goes under
the radar because it's so common it's as
common as it's slipping on your shoe
when you go outside if you're going to
the supermarket you don't say oh I'm
just gonna cycle to the supermarket you
just step outside get on your bicycle
and go that's at Tokyo disattention you
know nowhere skin enou got to you
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mysterious I'm an independent consultant
so I go to visit lots of IT companies
the small ones
it's everywhere I ride my bicycle unless
it rains we have very little cycling
infrastructure here in Japan or here in
Tokyo in particular we have about 10
kilometers of cycle lanes
dedicated cycle paths for an
international city that's just
ridiculous
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pick their Tokyo in some parts it's
okay it's that better than say Taiwan
where there are lots of scooters so that
was difficult to cycle but compared to
countries like another lab those
countries have much wider cycle roads we
can learn from them
the modal share in Tokyo despite the
fact that we have no infrastructure is
14% so 14% of every trip taken in the
city every single day is made by bicycle
when you consider the sheer number of
trips being taken in Tokyo today it's
enormous
cycling in Tokyo works not because of
the infrastructure it works for a host
of other reasons the local neighborhoods
are very small very compact and they
have every possible convenience within a
short walk or a short cycle away if you
need to visit the doctor the dentist's
the supermarket the butcher everything
is within a short ride away so this
makes the bicycle the most convenient
method of transport another reason is
the high cost in the inconvenience of
car ownership owning a car is expensive
parking a car is expensive it can cost
as much to park a car in the city for a
month and as it does for my apartment in
the suburbs for a month the parking is a
big issue it's very expensive
they're very less and then also the
public transportation I mean it's so
developed that we don't really need to
have cars in Fukushima and kudamon
update on this carried or more I know
Tokyo no Churchill no Dyke in Gothic I
so stare and you do not even a semester
at achieve a LA and Chicago collided
yeah did you go back what they saw you
know what it could not even a stop okay
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become like that bikini okay so this
stuff probably the biggest thing that
makes cycling work in Japan is the
people themselves the people just get on
with the job they have this this thing
that they termed the gamma and spirit it
just means get it done so if it's
raining outside
it doesn't matter they'll get on their
bicycle and they'll just get it done
other countries could learn to be kind
to each other
definitely motorists because everybody
has been on bikes before here even if
they don't do it now
so they know what it feels like to be on
bicycles most people do and then of
course a lot of old people are on the
bike I think we tend to be more
considerate to cyclists the module Adama
I said he must alone by Europe they're
so they're more fastidious yield to you
no more look we've got a document a
staccato car so you do homework talk
mean on you see that it debe not to your
EOP facility in general Otto awareness
given the lack of infrastructure on the
roads here the lack of cycle parts safe
cycling infrastructure for the majority
of people who cycling on the sidewalk
appears to be safer and makes a lot more
sense so in the West conventional wisdom
says you know bicycles and pedestrians
should not mix and in an ideal world
they shouldn't mix it all but in Tokyo
where we have no good cycling
infrastructure there really is no choice
the cyclists have got the option of
battling with the cars or cycling with
pedestrians we need the budget to get
wider cycle lanes installed especially
with cycling being more popular than
ever before as you know our the
Netherlands and Denmark of a really big
cycling countries and you know we we
look up to those countries and admire
what they've done for cycling and we
want to bring their people to Tokyo to
try and improve the cycling
infrastructure here
cycling in Tokyo really is amazing and
Tokyo has such a huge number of cyclists
yet officials and the population really
don't know what they have here
14% is a huge modal chair globally I
mean places like New York and Paris
they're talking numbers like 1 or 2
percent so cities around the world are
trying to achieve the cyclists numbers
that Tokyo has and Tokyo doesn't even
realize that they have such an amazing
cycling Tokyo
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