Italian Town Offers To Pay Its Residents To Cycle To Work

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The Italian town of Massarossa wants cars off the road so much, they will literally pay residents to bike to work. The town plans a 12-month pilot focusing on 50 workers. Each will be paid 25 cents per kilometre, tracked via a smartphone app, up to a monthly cap of 50 euros ($72). That doesn't sound like much, but it would amount to maximum annual savings of around $860, not to mention factoring in the money saved on gas. Do you think this sounds like a good idea?

1. The Italian town of Massarossa wants cars off the road so much, they will literally pay residents to bike to work. The town plans a 12-month pilot focusing on 50 workers. Each will be paid 25 cents per kilometre, tracked via a smartphone app, up to a monthly cap of 50 euros ($72). That doesn't sound like much, but it would amount to maximum annual savings of around $860, not to mention factoring in the money saved on gas. Do you think this sounds like a good idea?

Yes

61%

1,053 votes

14%

245 votes

Undecided

25%

436 votes

2. Something was attempted in France last year, and while the numbers of cyclists did increase, most of them had been either carpooling or taking public transit anyway, so the total number of cars on the road didn't go down by much. Paris banned most cars for a single day in September in an attempt to combat pollution. Do you think something like this would be a benefit to your city or town?

Yes

31%

539 votes

24%

408 votes

Where I live, already many people bike to work

104 votes

Where I live, car traffic is not an issue

16%

274 votes

Not sure

24%

409 votes

3. Do you bike to work or school on a regular basis, or would you like to?

I already bike to work/school

75 votes

I would love to try biking to work/school

10%

178 votes

I am not interested in biking to work/school

22%

380 votes

I can't even consider biking to work/school for a number of reasons -- too far, highway driving, unsafe terrain, etc.

35%

606 votes

I take public transit so biking isn't an issue

15%

254 votes

Other (please specify)

14%

241 votes

4. By 2019, one European capital city plans to be completely car-free. A newly-elected city council in Oslo, Norway, made the landmark decision to restrict all private vehicles from the capital's centre, marking the first permanent ban of this kind. Oslo's city council is comprised of Norway's Labour, Green, and Socialist Left parties – all of which intend to construct 60 km of extra bike lanes in the interim, while allocating more funds to the city's public transport system. Do you ever see this happening in Canada or the U.S.?

Never will happen!

26%

454 votes

It could be a possibility, at least in some areas

24%

419 votes

Maybe one or two places, but overall, no

18%

305 votes

Yes, I can see this happening everywhere in the U.S. and Canada

66 votes

Not sure

27%

472 votes

Other (please specify)

18 votes

11/21/2015 Living 1734 30 By: ghahrem5

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