According to report by Legambiente economy Bike, Italy is a country for cycling. It is the means par excellence crisis, Maintenance almost nothing, zero fuel €, reducing harmful emissions, and physical well-being for the driver included.
The analysis, It reads the document, offered encouraging results, especially when you consider that among the means of transport the bicycle is still the Cinderella, used only by 3,6% della popolazione. Well all the movements pedal generates revenues, a Schedule (inner product bike) of 6.206.587.766 €, the sum of the production bike (accessories included) and ciclovacanze.
This is also because, in Italian, It has records of bike paths with more than 4 thousand kilometers from north to south (and many more under construction). It was quantified the amount of annual benefits in euro produced by each kilometer of cycling in cities where at least 20% the journeys are made by bike (23 billion Euros with over 85 thousand new green jobs).
therefore, given that with the development of bicycle traffic increases road safety, who daily use the bicycle as a means of transport will improve the psychological well-being represents a powerful antidote to sedentary, and which ensures a substantial economic saving of the costs for the transport, we just have to get on the bike as much as possible wherever you are.
Alex Gaetani
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