{"id":48986,"date":"2014-10-14T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T17:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/?p=48986"},"modified":"2024-09-01T00:35:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T05:35:52","slug":"lets-bike-it-bamboo-car-skeletons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2014\/10\/lets-bike-it-bamboo-car-skeletons\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Activists Build Bamboo Car Skeletons to Demonstrate Space Taken by Single Occupancy Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-style-default entry-header is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fe9cc265 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><figure class=\"colo-post-featured-image wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bike-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bike-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bike-1-640x427.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group post-title is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-0bc941e6 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><h1 class=\"alignfull wp-block-post-title\">Cycling Activists Build Bamboo Car Skeletons to Demonstrate Space Taken by Single Occupancy Cars<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull post-meta is-layout-flex wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2014-10-14T12:01:23-05:00\">October 14, 2014<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a class=\"category-design\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/category\/design\/\" rel=\"tag\">Design<\/a><a class=\"category-social-issues\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/category\/social-issues\/\" rel=\"tag\">Social Issues<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-author-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/author\/cjobson\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"wp-block-post-author-name__link\">Christopher Jobson<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull post-share-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-outermost-social-sharing has-visible-labels has-icon-color is-style-logos-only is-layout-flex wp-block-outermost-social-sharing-is-layout-flex\"><li style=\"color: #1c1e0d; 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To accomplish this, the group fabricated bamboo skeletons shaped like actual cars and mounted them on their bikes. The activists then cycled around the streets of Riga for several hours to highlight the absurdity of using a large car to move a single person. The stunt was organized as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilityweek.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Mobility Week<\/a>, an ongoing campaign that explores sustainable urban mobility around Europe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bike-2.jpg\" alt=\"bike-2\" class=\"wp-image-48988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bike-2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bike-2-640x427.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bike-3.jpg\" alt=\"bike-3\" class=\"wp-image-48989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bike-3.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bike-3-640x427.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bike-4.jpg\" alt=\"bike-4\" class=\"wp-image-48990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bike-4.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bike-4-640x427.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bike-5.jpg\" alt=\"bike-5\" class=\"wp-image-48991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bike-5.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bike-5-640x427.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few Latvian activists from a branch of the bicycle advocacy group Let&#8217;s Bike it recently created a visual reminder of the space taken by cars on a typical road. 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The activists then cycled around the streets<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2014\/10\/lets-bike-it-bamboo-car-skeletons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Cycling Activists Build Bamboo Car Skeletons to Demonstrate Space Taken by Single Occupancy Cars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[494,3099],"tags":[535,1078,356,77,32],"class_list":["post-48986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-social-issues","tag-activism","tag-bamboo","tag-bicycles","tag-cycling","tag-public-transportation"],"acf":{"acf_sponsor_post":[]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cycling Activists Build Bamboo Car Skeletons to Demonstrate Space Taken by Single Occupancy Cars &#8212; Colossal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2014\/10\/lets-bike-it-bamboo-car-skeletons\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cycling Activists Build Bamboo Car Skeletons to Demonstrate Space Taken by Single Occupancy Cars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A few Latvian activists from a branch of the bicycle advocacy group Let&#8217;s Bike it recently created a visual reminder of the space taken by cars on a typical road. 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