Squeeze into fancy gear and obsess over your route? I’d much rather trundle along, get lost occasionally and look at herons

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Presentation – by Mike McKillen


Velo City Seville: Simple promo cartoon for cycling accompanied by a song singing praises of cycling

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Road safety groups are warning that government plans to allow longer lorries in the UK will increase the number of fatal road accidents.

Full article: UK Guardian

Creating infrastructure and bike lanes is easy – the real challenge is changing perceptions about cycling and cyclists

Full article: UK Guardian

YouTube video – not a helmet in sight!

Front-of-bus cycle carrier on a bus, in Minneapolis, USA

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A view from the USA on this critical issue

Metal drain covers, stray gravel and potholes – all villains in a unique study of cycling accidents in Portland

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After decades of trial and error, the ingredients for robust urban cycling cultures are becoming clear.by Gary Gardner Early this decade, Parisian city planners grappling with traffic congestion, air pollution, and other challenges ventured outside the box. They were well aware that traditional transportation remedies such as widened roads and expanded parking typically relieve congestion in the short term but seed even greater longterm crowding while worsening pollution and carbon emissions. So they decided to use bicycles—some 20,000 of them, scattered across the city at metro stops and other convenient locations—to extend the reach of the Paris public transport system and to provide inexpensive, healthy transportation for short trips. Not your father’s transit plan, to be sure, but Paris’s public bike initiative symbolizes the new respect bicycles are getting in a growing number of municipal governments worldwide. Worldwatch Institute – vision for a sustainable world