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Why Bicycle Accidents Can Be So Devastating
Cycling has become an international sensation. Like most sports, there are peaks and valleys of popularity. As much…
COVID-19 Has Created More Cyclists: How Cities Can Keep Them On Their Bikes
As physical distancing measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 begin to relax in some countries and people…
COVID-19 Pandemic Fuels Bicycle Boom
The cycling market experiences a surge in demand in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Before COVID-19, we…
Get A Grip On These Bike Trends For 2020
The year is almost over. Thinking about saving up and starting the next year with new gears? How…
Top 10 Life-Changing Benefits Of Regular Cycling
Cycling regularly can give you more than you think. There is more to cycling than just being a…
The Bike As A Future Mobility Solution For Cleaner Cities
The Norwegian Capital of Oslo has incorporated plans to increase the usage and number of cycles among citizens…
Here’s The Ultimate City Bike
With our cities becoming more congested, and climate change as a major global problem, more and more people…
Top 10 Most Bicycle-Friendly Cities In The World 2019
Sometimes, we need a step back to move forward. Climate change, pollution, and congestion in cities are some…
Bike-Friendly Cities Should Be Designed For Everyone, Not Just For Wealthy White Cyclists
Designing for bikes has become a hallmark of forward-looking modern cities worldwide. Bike-friendly city ratings abound, and advocates…
How To Turn A Car Town Into A Cycling City
As the home of Royal Philips Electronics for more than 125 years, the southern Netherlands city of Eindhoven…
Is Travel Really That Bad?
Okay, the title of this article is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but travel does involve considerable costs. The average…
How Traffic Signals Favour Cars And Discourage Walking
Traffic signals give priority to motor vehicles over pedestrians. This inequality undermines many of the stated goals of…
How Many People Make A Good City?
Australia’s population clock is, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, steadily ticking away at an overall total population…
Almost Three-Quarters Of Women ‘Never Cycle’
Almost three-quarters of women in seven UK cities never ride a bike for local journeys, despite having a…
Copenhagen Mastermind Jan Gehl Isn’t Sold On ‘Smart’ Cities
Architect and planner Jan Gehl looks back on how he helped transform Copenhagen into one of the world’s…
Britain, A Biking Highway Pioneer, In The 1930, Needs Revival
In the 1930s, the U.K. built a massive network of state-of-the-art bike trails. Now the challenge is to…
In Netherlands, Cyclists Go With The Flow With ‘Flo’
A system called “Flo” system uses cute creatures to tell cyclists to speed up or slow down to…
Can a Bike Bridge Make Miami Safer for Cyclists?
Advocates hope this long elevated pathway is just the first step toward changing the city’s bike culture. The…
Renegade Bike Lanes: It Always Takes An Activist In San Francisco
After two cyclists were killed in hit-and-runs on the same day, the SFMTrA grabbed traffic cones and took…
How We Treat Bike-Share Determines It’s Fate, Helsinki’s Answer
Earlier this month, Helsinki launched a new bike-share program wholly integrated with the rest of the city’s public…
Top 20 Cities In The World For Cycling Lifestyle
THE BICYCLE MAKES sense in cities. With rising urbanization, our cities need modern mobility solutions, and moving around…
Bike Sharing Needs This Little Secret To Succeed
Seattle’s struggle to attract riders reveals what makes a bike-share program thrive — or in the Emerald City’s…
Amsterdam, Already Leads In Cycling, Pulls Further With Bike Mayor
The semi-official post is the first of its kind in the world. This summer, Amsterdam will go one…
The Global Bike Sharing Boom : Why Cities Love A Cycling Scheme
As urbanisation and modernisation reach unprecedented levels, road congestion has become a modern day menace. Heavy traffic is…
Want A Cycling City? Design For Traffic Safety
The World Bicycle Forum in Medellín, Colombia last 2015 brought together more than 4,000 attendees from across the…
A Tale Of Many Cities & The Impacts Of Bikesharing
Public bikesharing has emerged as one of the latest transportation innovations, transforming North American cities and providing people…
Why Modern Cities Kills Nightingale’s Song
The Commons apartment building in the inner Melbourne suburb of Brunswick has won swags of awards, including the…
Imagine A World Where Cycling Is More Popular
A new report calculates how much the world would benefit—especially the environment—from a global shift to more riding.…
How Have Our Travel Habits Changed Over The Past 50 Years
We tend to assume that travel today is fundamentally different from what it was half a century ago.…
Why Common Cycling Sense Is Still Lost Around California
Residents of Coronado, California, marched out a series of absurd anti-bike arguments that somehow won the day. Bicycle…
How Christchurch Returned The City To Its Cycling Roots
After the 2011 disaster, residents were asked what they wanted from the city once known as ‘Cyclopolis’. They…
Bike City Copenhagen : This Is The Ultimate Bicycle Friendly City
Welcome to Copenhagen, although if you’re a fan of two-wheeled transportation, you’ll probably come to know it as…
8 Surprising Discoveries In Amsterdam Cycling Culture
Amsterdam is a city where 48% of all trips made in the city centre are made by bicycle.…
Why Friends & Communities Are Key To Bike Culture In Brazil
Nossa Cidade explores critical questions for building more sustainable cities. Every month features a new theme. Leaning on…
How Leaders Led The Example On Sustainable Urban Mobility
It takes a combination of citizen support and top-down vision to create meaningful change in a city. While…
How Public Transport And Bikes Can Co-Exist On Streets
A design solution known as the “floating” bus stop is gaining attention in U.S. cities. It’s one of…
Stacking Cases For Street Park Conversion To Bike Lanes
San Francisco is moving forward with a plan to add protected bike lanes on Polk Street, one of…
How New Technology Is A Useful Tool For Urban Safety
Is “Life Paint” a helpful new technology, or a dubious marketing ploy? There’s no shortage of products…
SF Bay Area’s Bike Share Set For Expansion
Bay Area Bike Share is poised for a tenfold expansion in the region. The expansion to more than…
Enjoying Mobility In Stuttgart
Stuttgart has set an aspiring goal when it comes to mobility on two wheels: the long term, the…
‘Bikes vs. Cars’ Wages The Wrong War
Toronto politician Rob Ford is always good for a laugh, if only in recognition of how far…
How Bikes Can Become Perfect For Urban Commutes
The bicycle hasn’t changed much since the 1890s: Today’s version has the same basic diamond shape and the…
Data And Stories Beneath Citi Bikes That Never Sleep
When Ben Wellington started teaching statistics to urban planners at Pratt Institute’s Graduate Center for Planning, he tried…
These Ads Will Make You Want To Ride The Public Transit
Different cities all over the world have their own unique modes of public transport and riding them need…
VeloCity : Cycling Paths Around The World
From Calgary’s space-age Peace bridge to Eindhoven’s floating roundabout and the Copenhagen apartments with a cycle path straight…
Amsterdam Has Officially Ran Out Of Bicycle Parking
Amsterdam is currently tackling a problem most cities can only dream of having: It has way too many…
Cities That Make Us Smile
How do we decide what we like and what we choose? Many will say – or like to…
The Sun Under Your Feet (And Bicycle) In Amsterdam
Solar panels embedded in the cycle path near Amsterdam could generate enough electricity to power three houses, with…
Seville’s Cycling Transformation
Spain remains far from a paradise for bikes – yet cycling has increased 11-fold in Seville in the…
Copenhagen’s Cycling Innovation
From ‘green wave’ traffic lights and majestic harbour bike bridges to digital countdowns and foot rests at junctions,…