**Official** Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics

[Spark]

Get them off the roads. Build special paths to segregate out those "bike people". Make them special places to store their accursed vehicles so they don't leave them on the footpath. Build more shower facilities so they don't stink up our workplaces.

Or alternatively we could just ban all the cars and maybe avoid setting the entire world on fire.

 

[Chewie]

Or alternatively we could just ban all the cars and maybe avoid setting the entire world on fire.

I read it as in jest as all those things would be great for cyclists

 

[Victor Ian]

Or alternatively we could just ban all the cars and maybe avoid setting the entire world on fire.

And have us all starve to death through non delivery of everything we need to survive. Great plan

 

[Burgey]

Get them off the roads. Build special paths to segregate out those "bike people". Make them special places to store their accursed vehicles so they don't leave them on the footpath. Build more shower facilities so they don't stink up our workplaces.

yessssa

 

[Burgey]

Or alternatively we could just ban all the cars and maybe avoid setting the entire world on fire.

That’d be awesome, and we could take three days to traverse a reasonable sized city transporting, well, nothing because they invented the internal combustion engine for a very good reason

 

[stephen]

That’d be awesome, and we could take three days to traverse a reasonable sized city transporting, well, nothing because they invented the internal combustion engine for a very good reason

I've read historians who think the size of ancient cities was limited to about 1 million people for so long simply because that was about as large as a city could be before traversing it took over a day. As soon as rail roads were invented cities could grow much larger.

As for cycling, I think it's best not to confuse commuter cycling with road cyclists. Sure, here in Australia most commuter cyclists are Lycra clad, but that's more because commuter cycling requires an unnecessary amount of shared road spaces. In places where cycle paths are separated from the road, more people cycle and there is less congestion and accidents.

Studies have shown that commuters tend to take the method which is fastest, regardless of what that method is. Commuter cycling also has massive economic benefits (less road wear, less health care system burden and less tax dollars spent on buses/ trains).

Australian cities are poorly designed for people. Not as bad as American cities, but we have designed our cities around cars, rather than around people. That's why everyone has huge blocks of land, suburbs require cars to navigate and commercial centres need massive car parks. Many European cities are far more practical for actually living in because they were built in a time where people had to walk to get anywhere.

There's a lot to love about Australia, but our transportation infrastructure is not one of those things.

 

[Line and Length]

Bring back the horse and cart.

 

[Furball]

if it means I never have to see some flaccid 50 something bloke in lycra

Stop looking in the mirror then.

 

[Line and Length]

Here are some more ideas for new inclusions.

 

[Howe_zat]

Any real talk of new sports should include canoe polo.

Essentially what they do is spear the point of their canoes as hard as they can into the other guy's face, and there's also a ball game at points

 

[Jack1]

Decent for GB. Couldn’t really have hoped for better than 4th.