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| Bicycling
News Worldwide
The optimist's look at transportation.
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| Bicycling
News Worldwide
The optimist's look at transportation.
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America | Davis | Davis has been ranked as the city with the highest percentage of cyclists by Bikes At Work. 20% of trips made in this city are by bike and many are by or with small children. |
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| America | Maryland |
Maryland has set into law a measure which provides
incentive for employers to pay their employees added income if they agree
to give up their parking spot at work.
Environmental
Defense
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Tom Lynn - photographer |
America | Milwaukee | for political reasons, the mayor was really concerned that if we came with a plan to take them [the freeways] both down it would be too radical. So we came with a plan to take down one - and then we only got half of that one taken down. But a city official told me on Friday that, because of the project's reception and because the value of the land had increased so enormously, now they're going to take the whole thing down. |
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A & T Design |
America | New York |
''This [The Hudson River Bikepath] is by far the biggest car-free bicycle and
pedestrian path New York has ever seen,'' said John Kaehny, director of Transportation
Alternatives, a cycling advocacy organization. ''It connects the
densest residential section on the Upper West Side with the densest
business and entertainment district in Midtown.''
Mr. Kaehny said that as many as 800 bicyclists had been using the Hudson River greenway on spring and fall weekends. |
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A & T Design |
America | Pennsylvania |
The Delaware Valley Regional Planning a Commission (DVRPC)
along with Clean Air Council nd the Bicycle Coalition of the Delaware
Valley (BCDV), recently embarked on the Suburban Bike Mobility Project.
This program evaluates the level of service on arterial roads from a
bicyclist's point of view. It then recommends improvements for
approximately 70 miles of suburban roadway.
The Suburban Bike Mobility Program |
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America | Portland | For over six years, Portland has taken major steps to improve bicycle safety and comfort. The most impressive example is a floating bicycle path designed as a solution to the imposition of a nearby freeway. Rather than leave the path disjointed, the route was attached to pilings right on the river. |
photo by William G. Innanen |
America | Seattle | Seattle is the innovator of the police bicycle patrols. The program has reduced costs, and brought the police officer closer to the citizinry. Inspired by it's success, over 2000 other American cities have adopted the program. |
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America | Various | In cities across the country such as San Francisco, Akron, Milwaukee, Seattle, and Portland - downtown freeways are being torn down as planners begin to understand the negative impact and poor return on investment offered by highways and arterials. |
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A & T Design |
America | Washington D.C. | During the April 11 debate on the energy bill, the United States Senate adopted an amendment that would promote energy conservation through bicycling. The Conserve By Bike Amendment establishes within the Department of Transportation a Conserve By Bicycling pilot program. This program would oversee up to ten pilot projects geographically dispersed across the US designed to conserve energy resources by providing education and marketing tools to convert car trips to bike trips. |
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America | National | So let’s put it into perspective. Everything has risks. Failure Analysis Associates Inc. found per 1,000,000 exposure hours, the fatalities are 128.71 for skydiving, 1.07 for swimming, .47 for motoring and .26 for bicycling. |
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Belgium | Hasselt | Not only did the Mayor stop a third ring road around the city, but he converted one existing ring road into a pedestrian and bicycle street and provided free bus service. The measure was partly adopted because the city did not have enough money to expand it’s roads. The increased bicycle and public transit infrastucture was cheaper. |
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Canada | Toronto | Toronto has one of the highest rates of bicycle use of any large North American city. (Egan, personal communication, 1998) The number of bicycle trips to the Toronto central area increased by 75% between 1987 and 1993. |
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Car Free Day in Bogota |
Columbia | Bogota | Bogota has been feverishly building a bicycle infrastructure and now provides Latin America's largest network of cycleways (250 km), and the world's longest pedestrian way, Bogota also hosts the world's largest car-free day (covering 35,000 ha). |
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Photo courtesy of Transportation Alternatives |
England | London |
London's Mayor Ken Livingstone has enacted congestion pricing which charges an $8 fee for private vehicles entering the downtown area. This policy has reduced traffic by 20% and even former critics are praising it's success. |
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A & T Design |
Europe | Excluding land, it costs roughly $100 per space to create bicycle parking with attractive, user-friendly racks ……..and around $500 with lockers. Car parking is at least 10 times as expensive | |
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France | Paris | Mayor Bertrand Delanoe....scored one of his greatest successes last summer with "Paris Plage" (Paris Beach). He spent $1.5 million converting a stretch of the quays along the Seine [a freeway] into a beach....French reports said more than 2 million people visited the urban beach. |
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Germany | "Eighteen bikes can be parked in the space of one car, thirty of them can move along in the space devoured by a single automobile. It takes two lanes of a given size to move 40,000 people across a bridge in one hour by sing modern trains, four to move them by buses, twelve to move them in their cars and one one lanve for them to pedal across on bicycles." | |
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ITDP |
Ghana | Accra | Accra Mayor Solomon Darko and other leaders are working with ITDP's Global Bicycle Fund to provide bicycle dealers with loan guaranteees and technical assistance to help them grow their business. |
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Photo courtesy of Sustainable Transport |
Indonesia | Jakarta | After great success in India, Institute for Transportation & Development Policy has replicated the Cycle Rickshaw Modernization Project in Jakarta. |
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Italy | Ancona | Men with weak heart muscles reported marked improvements in their [marital relations] after bicycling three times a week for eight weeks, according to a study led by Dr. Romualdo Belardinelli, director of the Lancisi Heart Institute in Ancona, Italy. |
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| Japan | Toyota | Toyota employees working at the company’s headquarters in Japan have been asked to leave their cars at home. “It may seem like a contradiction, but if you think about the problems we are causing to the community around us, it can't be helped," said Toyota spokeswoman Monika Fujita. "It's also quite meaningless to drive in a traffic jam," she said. Since February, Toyota has provided a free bus shuttle service from two nearby train stations. By July, the number of workers taking public transit to work had nearly doubled. | |
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| New Zealand | New Zealand has created a nationwide Bike Wise Business Battle. It aims to encourage employers and employees to use their bike as a means of transport. National trophies will be awarded by business sector and there are plenty of other prizes, awarded on the basis of number of participants and distance traveled. | ||
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Norway | Norway is proposing tax breaks for employees who agree to leave their car at home and bike to work. "The idea is to make riding a bike both safe and attractive", Administration spokesman Anders Dalen said. | |
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Peru | Lima | Lima has approved $7.83 million in funding for the Sustainable Transport Improvement Program. The project includes programs to promote bicycle use and improve bicycle infrastructure, lower the cost of public transportation. |
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S Korea | Seoul |
Mayor Lee Mung-Bak is moving forward with plans to demolish Seoul's
elevated highway and replace it with a Bus Rapid Transit corridor. The city plans to cut private vehicle use in half by 2005.
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Afribike |
SouthAfrica | Cape Town |
In 2003 Cape Town celebrated it's first Vehicle Free Event. The
celebration included the participation of hundreds of cyclists, thousands
of pedestrians, and dozens of dignitaries including South Africa's
Minister of Transport, Dulah Omar. The
Institute for Transport and Development Policy |
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Spain | Lisbon | Lisbon's new mayor, Dr. Santana Lopes, has taken the daring step of instituting strong traffic controls in Lisbon's historic Bairro Alto area, just a kilometer or so from the center of town. The new regulations ban cars from the area, except for those that belong to residents and area businesses. Delivery trucks are permitted into the area for three hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon, but no truck is allowed to remain in the area for more than an hour. |
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| Tiawan | Teipei |
Tiawan president Chen Shui-ban celebrated Earth Day in 2001
by bicycling to work with top officials from Taiwan's Environment and
transportation agencies.
Grist Magazine April 2001 |
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Turkey | Buyukada |
The Princess Islands south of Istanbul are one of the world's few safe
havens from auto culture. Private
automobiles are prohibited by law and even the police vans and fire
engines are tolerated at best. The
Municipal police chief can't remember a single road accident in his 26
years of duty.
Sustainable Transport Fall 2002 |
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| Venezuela | Caracas | When an oil-producing nation goes on strike do the citizens keep the petroleum for themselves? Nope, they get a bike. Bicycles have been in high demand since the strike began in December 2002. | |
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