Saturday, March 31, 2007
FAQ - Dublin Cycling Campaign
FAQ - Dublin Cycling Campaign: "Did You Know?
* that you can park twelve bikes in the area required to park one car?
* that a car - approximately one tonne - produces four times its own weight in CO2 each year?
* that about 5% of the energy used by a car moves the occupants - the other 95% is used to move the metal?
* that 25,000,000 people, world wide, have been killed in road traffic accidents since the birth of the car?
* That the AA calculate that it costs �96 per week to run a small (less than 1000 cc) car?
* That the energy supplied to a car by one gallon of petrol would enable a bicycle to travel 1,200 miles?
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* that you can park twelve bikes in the area required to park one car?
* that a car - approximately one tonne - produces four times its own weight in CO2 each year?
* that about 5% of the energy used by a car moves the occupants - the other 95% is used to move the metal?
* that 25,000,000 people, world wide, have been killed in road traffic accidents since the birth of the car?
* That the AA calculate that it costs �96 per week to run a small (less than 1000 cc) car?
* That the energy supplied to a car by one gallon of petrol would enable a bicycle to travel 1,200 miles?
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