<story><title>Norway rolls back EV incentives while boosting walking and cycling (2022)</title><url>https://electrek.co/2022/05/17/norway-rolls-back-ev-incentives-while-boosting-walking-and-cycling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>Yes, it&amp;#x27;s amazing how bike advocates view the world as a homogenous place.&lt;p&gt;Where I live it&amp;#x27;s 90 degrees or higher, and humid in the summer, and can be sub-zero in the winter. It&amp;#x27;s also quite hilly -- flat and level riding is the exception. I&amp;#x27;m not riding a bike any substantial distance in those conditions, regardless of paths or lanes.</text></item><item><author>gentleman11</author><text>I can’t even imagine that here where I live. My neighbourhood has sidewalks, which is nice because all the adjacent ones don’t. To go downtown in this little town in winter you have to risk a treacherous steep hill covered in ice and snow that never gets cleared and it’s actually dangerous</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willio58</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a myth that people can&amp;#x27;t ride bikes in cities that experience exceptionally hot or cold weather. They can, and do, it&amp;#x27;s just that the cities need to fund infrastructure to make those things more comfortable and enticing.&lt;p&gt;For heat specifically, you need trees covering sidewalks and bike paths. Also the materials you build sidewalks and structures with contribute to this, and if you can then adding some evaporative cooling via fountains or ponds is a great idea too. For more ideas: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;heatislands&amp;#x2F;heat-island-cooling-strategies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;heatislands&amp;#x2F;heat-island-cooling-strategi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The heat island effect is real, and it&amp;#x27;s only going to get much much worse in cities that refuse to work to fix it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Norway rolls back EV incentives while boosting walking and cycling (2022)</title><url>https://electrek.co/2022/05/17/norway-rolls-back-ev-incentives-while-boosting-walking-and-cycling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>Yes, it&amp;#x27;s amazing how bike advocates view the world as a homogenous place.&lt;p&gt;Where I live it&amp;#x27;s 90 degrees or higher, and humid in the summer, and can be sub-zero in the winter. It&amp;#x27;s also quite hilly -- flat and level riding is the exception. I&amp;#x27;m not riding a bike any substantial distance in those conditions, regardless of paths or lanes.</text></item><item><author>gentleman11</author><text>I can’t even imagine that here where I live. My neighbourhood has sidewalks, which is nice because all the adjacent ones don’t. To go downtown in this little town in winter you have to risk a treacherous steep hill covered in ice and snow that never gets cleared and it’s actually dangerous</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacoblambda</author><text>This isn&amp;#x27;t a problem with biking in Finland in the winter.&lt;p&gt;Bike lanes are plowed and&amp;#x2F;or compacted multiple times a day during heavy snowfall. Albeit it isn&amp;#x27;t really that hilly but more than weather, the main constraint is having a city willing to actually maintain biking infrastructure.</text></comment>