{"id":5652,"date":"2012-09-23T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/09\/23\/hong-kong-worlds-worst-city-for-cyclists\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:09:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:09:25","slug":"hong-kong-worlds-worst-city-for-cyclists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/09\/23\/hong-kong-worlds-worst-city-for-cyclists\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong – World’s Worst City for Cyclists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was not long ago that when you thought of China, you thought bicycles.\u00a0So much so in fact, \u00a0that it was \u00a0the Chinese example of walls and walls of of cyclists flowing so well together in\u00a0Ted White’s film “Return of the Scorcher”,\u00a0that helped give rise\u00a0to the Critical Mass movement all over the world. While this was the China we thought we knew,\u00a0\u00a0cars are becoming its ruler king. And the country is at near gridlock from too many cars.<\/div>\n

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What’s worse, \u00a0in Hong Kong, a city of seven million people, conditions for cyclists are so bad the governemnt does not want people riding bicycles on its streets. Though China was under British rule until 1997 and was never a biking city, in following China’s lead, \u00a0it makes sense that its terrible relationship with cyclists has been allowed to deteriorate to the level it has.<\/div>\n
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