The Guardian - Big Picture: Copenhagen bikes, by Mikael Colville-Anderson
The guardian has published a great selection of Mikael Coville-Andersons pictures of people getting around their city (Copenhagen) on bikes. Shows how cycling in the city can and should be - easy, convenient, safe, door to door, stylish…
Fighting against private car invasion….in 1896
Some weeks ago I came across a great story in The Urban Country blog. The photograph shows the front cover of the San Francisco Call, headlining a demonstration of thousands of protesters -more than 100.000 according to the newspaper- who gathered to protest against what started to be an excessive presence of private cars in the streets of this Californian city.
“The California Cycleway, opened in 1900, was an elevated tollway built specially for bicycle traffic through the Arroyo Seco, intended to connect the cities of Pasadena and Los Angeles”
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“In the first decade of the 20th century, the structure was dismantled… Later, the California Cycleway’s right-of-way became part of the Arroyo Seco Parkway (Pasadena Freeway).”
(Source: copenhagenize.com)
Wow! How many times I needed one of this!
All the tools are still there! Full marks for Brisbane!
Yay, Brisbane!
(via elpliego)
Infographic: ‘The British Cycling Economy’
“Cycling in the UK has undergone a renaissance over the past five years, with an increasing number of people taking to the streets of the UK by bike. Structural, economic, social and health factors have caused a ‘shift in the sand’ in the UK, spurring an expansion in the cycling market with indications that this will be a longer-term trend. This growth in cycling participation has had the knock-on effect of bringing economic and social benefits to the UK. In 2010 the result was a gross cycling contribution to the UK economy of £2.9bn.”
~ Dr Alexander Grous, productivity and innovation specialist at the London School of Economics and lead author of the new report, ‘The British Cycling Economy: Gross Cycling Product’.
(Source: London Cyclist)
