Best Benefits of Building Bicycle Friendly Communities (Essay Sample)

Best Benefits of Building Bicycle Friendly Communities
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Best Benefits of Building Bicycle Friendly Communities
Bicycle riding is popular among many people who use it to travel for shorter distances. Moreover, during this wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, bicycle riding has gained even more popularity, with people practicing the health protocols of social distancing. Cycling has significant economic, health, and environmental benefits to the government and the community. Blondiau et al. (2016) argue that apart from job creation in manufacturing, retailing, bicycle tourism, and infrastructure, more than 600 000 jobs in Europe have been created for the local and less skilled laborers. Besides job creation, cycling is a cost-benefit economic activity. While cycling offers a solution for the traffic congestion experienced on most roads, people who cycle are exempted from the operational costs of maintaining a vehicle. Furthermore, the cost of building and maintaining more roads to control traffic can be evaded by more people cycling. Therefore, creating bicycle-friendly communities has cost-beneficial effects.
By embracing bike cycling, communities can achieve a clean environment and a healthy future. Cycling is a physical activity that ensures good blood circulation in the body while ensuring that a person reaches the required 60-90 minutes of workout per day. According to Cavill and Davis (2007), cycling reduces the chances of developing diabetes, cancer, weight loss and improves mental well-being. Also, due to increased physical activity, the health maintenance costs that an inacti