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@RobHiggins The data you posted seemed familiar to me. It looks like it was reported here:

https://www.bikeradar.com/features/long-reads/cycling-environmental-impact

What I find interesting about European data of this sort is that as soon as you start comparing fossil fuel burning vehicles, they're likely going to miss fair comparisons for North America, where fair here would mean adding pickup trucks in to the list, which would create a new line item (or change the range of 'gas powered vehicle') that is up in the 370's. I think this is important data for us, as I don't believe we tax or treat pickup trucks appropriately on many factors, including their weight, how dangerous they are, and how much they pollute.

Source: https://www.co2everything.com/co2e-of/ford-f-150-awd-2020

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Hi everyone,

Having a look at what the city's been engineering AT-wise lately, and some recent feedback from some of the elected officials, it seems we have some work to do. It would be excellent if we could start collecting news articles that come up, details and conversation about the AT master plan, and figuring out what we need to do with city staff & elected officials to try and get some positives moving forward - at the very least getting some recognition that cycling is not just a summer pastime, separated bike infrastructure is not only necessary but oh-my-god-why-can't-anyone-get-this saves a town big money for every buck that's put in to it: https://grist.org/cities/bike-lanes-save-lives-and-money/

Of course, if you build a bridge for 50 billion dollars but don't connect the ends of the bridge to anything, you still wind up with a waste of money.... until the ends are connected. (Thanks to Trent for the analogy)

Here's an article from Castanet covering some of the recent AT discussion: https://www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Kamloops/534788/City_of_Kamloops_eyes_bike_friendly_changes_on_Seymour_Street

AT Plan Update from Feb. 11: https://kamloops.civicweb.net/document/198073/REP_CTW AT Plan Update v3_REP.pdf

What are your thoughts?