Some countries spend a lot of money to make bicycle usage easier. Why is this? Is this the best solution to traffic congestion.

With the consequences of global warming becoming increasingly obvious, many

countries

invest generously in their

bicycle

programs to achieve the goal of "

carbon

neutralisation".

Although

this

movement is mainly out of concerns about

climate

change, it to some degree alleviates

traffic

congestion

in cities, especially in developed

countries

. Increasing the proportion of

bicycle

usage can definitely improve

traffic

congestion

, but

this

is a desirable side-effect. The primary goal of governments encouraging

bicycle

usage, as mentioned above, is to counter the rapid progress of

climate

change.

According to

the Economist, a well-known Britain journal, in the

last

five years, the odds of extreme weather resulting from

climate

changes, like hurricanes, floods, or aridity have grown by 40% compared to the statistics collected in the 1980s. As one of the main contributors to

climate

change, car waste has reasonably raised the awareness of the governments who have committed to achieving

carbon

neutralisation by 2050 in the Paris Compacts of

Climate

. In light of

this

, governments are actively encouraging the usage of

bicycles

, hoping to decline or at least maintain the now

carbon

dioxide level. What has come as a surprise is that the increasing possession percentage of

bicycles

effectively improves

traffic

congestion

which has concerned many

countries

for years. One compelling example can be seen in Shenzhen, a seaside cosmopolitan in southern China, where the pace of road construction had not caught the influx of population, and

as a result

, the city had been struggling with a serious

traffic

jam.

However

, after the new policy was published that

bicycles

have the highest priority on roads, there has been an increasing number of inhabitants shifting to

bicycles

.

As a result

, the same road can bear more vehicles at the same period, significantly increasing the efficiency. Seen from

this

aspect, I would argue that

bicycle

is an ideal way to solve

traffic

congestion

. To summarise, many

countries

invest in

bicycle

convenience as an approach to face the pressure of

carbon

neutralisation,

while

this

has unexpectedly produced a desirable side-effect: the improvement of

traffic

congestion

.