Found on: Budapest Critical Mass Draws 24,000 to 30,000 Riders

[[image:budapest_sm.jpg::left:0]]Budapest, Hungary has experienced its greatest Critical Mass bike ride ever on September 22, 2005. Estimates range between 24,000 and 30,000. This would therefore also make it one of the greatest Critical Mass rides in history.

Found on: Cycling quadruples at Bike It! schools

Bike It!, the levy-funded cycling promotion scheme, pays for four schools officers who work with 40 schools over 11 local authorities to help raise awareness of cycling. The results of the first year of the pilot project are now in and show that Bike It! officers can make a huge difference to take up of [...]

Found on: To Conserve Gas, President Calls for Less Driving

With fears mounting that high energy costs will crimp economic growth, President Bush called on Americans yesterday to conserve gasoline by driving less.

Found on: People push pedal power

What started as conservation became a way to connect with friends, family and community. Ingrid Strelka had a goal in mind when she started biking to work: She would buy no gas for three weeks.

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Found on: L.A. Riders Represent at the Downtown Peace March and Rally

[[image:protest_front2.jpg::inline:0]]Los Angeles area cyclists took to the streets of Downtown L.A. by bike to to rally against the War in Iraq, and the state of the Union at yesterday’s A.N.S.W.E.R. sponsored march and protest.

Found on: It’s all about THE BIKE

I’m like a teenage girl rummaging through her closet looking for the right top. Do I wear my spandex and enjoy the rush of pure speed on my feather-light Cannondale road bike? Or do I go in casual wear on my staid but comfortable Bridgestone hybrid, the one I usually ride to work?

Found on: Evacu-Bike

Author: Harv A previous blog by ACJ broached the subject of using a bicycle to escape and/or survive disasters. As of late we all have been made acutely aware of the problems of evacuating a city like Los Angeles in the case of a disaster – natural or otherwise. Could it happen here? Well, not [...]

Found on: How Curious George fled the Nazis on a bicycle

It was May 1940. A man in his early 40s and a woman in her early 30s were bicycling out of Paris as the German army was about to enter the city. In baskets on the backs of the bicycles were a few clothes, winter coats, some bread and cheese, and manuscripts for children’s books, [...]

Found on: Unjamming the Future

As millions of Asians jubilantly embrace driving, some experts predict an automotive nightmare. But a group of practical visionaries around are working out a solution: fewer cars and greater mobility.

Found on: Millions Honour Car-Free Cause

Around 100-million people observed yesterday’s international car-free day.

Found on: Stuck In Drive

Alternatives to the almighty auto don’t just exist

Found on: Bicyclists vs. Drivers — Who’s In The Right?

It’s your typical “only in San Francisco” story, one that pits cars against bicyclists, politicians against planners — and right-turn bans against reality.

Found on: Hayward Man Envisions A Car-Free Village

The world may or may not be ready for The Quarry Project, a car-free village of 1,000 homes that Lewis wants to build over a long-vacant quarry near Carlos Bee Boulevard. But the fact that no one has tried anything quite like it before won’t stop the political science professor from launching an ambitious effort.

Found on: Minister Indicates More ‘Car-Free’ Days to Come

[[image:beljam.jpg::left:0]]Brussels mobility minister Pascal Smet has pledged to introduce more car free days in the Belgian capital due to the growing success of the annual event.

Found on: London Commuters Opting to Pedal to Work

For years, Jon Wright considered commuting the 10 miles to work by bicycle. But it wasn’t until the terrorist bombings on London’s subway and bus system July 7 that he finally decided to make the leap.

Found on: Love-Ins No More, Now We Have Critical Mass!

[[image:peace_sm.gif::inline:0]]Bicycles are the new symbols of opting out of corporate commodification of transportation, cutting the oil-umbilical cord, while simplifying and naturalizing our lives. Love-ins of the 60′s have given way to Critical Masses in modern times.

Found on: Many Gas Guzzlers Are Gathering Dust—Commuters Find Alternate Means

In May, Holly Kennedy bought an SUV. It seemed like a good idea at the time. That very month, gasoline prices started to climb. And climb. And climb some more. By July, it was costing Kennedy $70 a week to fill her tank. Something had to give. So Kennedy parked her SUV and clambered aboard [...]

Found on: Discounts For Green People

Motorists who promise to use more environmentally-friendly forms of transport will receive shop discounts in a new scheme to encourage Peterborough to become greener.

Found on: Dump Your Cars, Dubliners Told

Dubliners are being encouraged to abandon their cars in favour of commuting on foot, bicycle, train, tram and bus as part of an international campaign, it emerged today.

Found on: Bikers, Walkers Driven to Unseat Motoris

T he parking lot at the Ventura fairgrounds was virtually empty Thursday for the start of California’s major conference to promote bicycling and walking. But that’s exactly what event organizers expected.

Found on: Car Free San Francisco

For San Francisco, Sept. 22, 2005 will signify more than the first day of autumn; it also will mark the city’s fourth Car Free Day celebration, an event in which roughly 1,500 other cities around the world will take part. According to the Car Busters Web site, their Prague, Czech Republic-based organization initiated the world’s [...]

Found on: Paris Cycles to Decongest Streets

Paris is considering a system of cheap bicycle rentals in a bid to ease car traffic on its increasingly congested streets and promote environmentally friendly transport, officials said.

Found on: Giveaway Plan to Get New Home Owners on their Bikes

Developers in Cork could be required to supply a bicycle with every home they build in a bid to cut traffic congestion.

Found on: Man Allegedly Pedals Away With Pot Plants

It was a terribly low-tech version of drug trafficking. Dwayne Earl Anthony Etzel was arrested on drug possession charges after a police officer caught sight of him pedaling on a bicycle with three uprooted marijuana plants under his arm.