L.A. Riders Represent at the Downtown Peace March and Rally
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.••• READ MORE...
Love-Ins No More, Now We Have Critical Mass!
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.••• READ MORE...
Bike Light on Critical Mass :: Pittsburgh
Bicycling Magazine once rated Pittsburgh as one of the worst cities for biking in the US, but the local bike community is working hard to change Pittsburgh's bad rep, and its efforts have begun to pay off. We spotlight Pittsburgh's increasingly successful Critical Mass ride, and local rider Jessi Berkelhammer gives us the inside scoop on what's behind its recent success.
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Budapest Critical Mass Draws 24,000 to 30,000 Riders
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.••• READ MORE...
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 cycling at schools.••• READ MORE...
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.••• READ MORE...
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.••• READ MORE...
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?••• READ MORE...
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, including "The Adventures of Fifi."••• READ MORE...
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.••• READ MORE...
Millions Honour Car-Free Cause
Around 100-million people observed yesterday's international car-free day.••• READ MORE...
Stuck In Drive
Alternatives to the almighty auto don't just exist — they may be our best hope for a livable metropolis.••• READ MORE...
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.••• READ MORE...
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.••• READ MORE...
Minister Indicates More 'Car-Free' Days to Come
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.••• READ MORE...
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.••• READ MORE...
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 her mountain bike each day for her 10-mile commute from her Arlington home to the Burlington software company where she works. Even though her commute time lengthened from 15 minutes one way to 40, she found herself wishing she had tried the two-wheeled approach a lot sooner.••• READ MORE...
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.••• READ MORE...
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.••• READ MORE...
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.••• READ MORE...
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 first global Car Free Day in 2000, when "the actions of four continents reclaimed our streets and our lives from the automobile."••• READ MORE...
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.••• READ MORE...
Giveaway Plan to Get New Home Owners on their Bikes
Developers in Cork could be required to supply abicycle with every home they build in a bid to cut
traffic congestion.
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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.••• READ MORE...
UN Report Praises Bicycle Transport
A United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report has lauded the bodaboda for employing over 5,000 people with each taking home about Sh250 per day in Kisumu Town.••• READ MORE...
Bicycle Remnants Clutter an Urban Landscape, This Time as Art
Where do all the old bicycles go: those twisted, rusted, fragmented remnants of freewheeling happiness that are chained to poles and left for dead on New York City streets?••• READ MORE...
Violence, Violence, Violence...that's what America wants...
"Violence, Violence, Violence...that's what America wants." Says the character Junior Bruce in the Roger Corman cult classic Death Race 2000. Well, it was a bloody day at the races as messengers and non-messengers gathered to compete in Deathrace 2005, an alley cat fun ride based loosely on the movie. The ride was hosted by Jason of 4916 a messenger clothing company.••• READ MORE...
Campus Library Lends a Ride
University of Rochester students who need a ride to get places can borrow one--but they have no doors, only one seat, and two wheels.••• READ MORE...
Biking to work a gas for some
For a few years now, Palm Beach Day School has tucked a little extra in the paychecks of teachers who carpool or ride the bus to help ease a parking crunch around its campus.••• READ MORE...
