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Interesting stuff update
A couple of interesting items have come at me in the last couple of days so I thought I’d share … Sweden is planning to connect its cities Lund and Malmö by building a cyclist superhighway stretching over 12.5 miles. The four-lane highway will be designed to follow alongside railway tracks and have fences and bushes in place to offer ...
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That’s the way to do it!
Another one for any council people watching. The clear message – most people don’t want to be ‘Cyclists’, they just want to ride a bike. http://www.vimeo.com/21340494
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Auckland Cityfix: Sharrows
Illustration: Bond Street Sharrow Treatment One traffic control device innovation that is being used with a degree of success in North America is the shared land marking or “Sharrow”. The following describes the use of sharrows in a bicycle network and considers their potential application in Auckland. The Sharrow like any bike facility is a...
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The ingredients necessary to make a vibrant, cyclized city have been identified.
Dutch bike: plain, funtional, beautiful/Google images How lucky we were to have an ambassador from the Dutch Cycling Embassy sharing his expertise with us. Marc spoke at length about how cycling is in the mainstream in The Netherlands. From listening to what he said it is possible to attempt to answer a question on many a cyclists’ lips. What...
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Amsterdamized comes to town…via Radio New Zealand.
Feel free to provide your own answer to this leading question. It may appear to some that a #wheeledpedestrian cuts a lonely figure in the local cycling landscape. Overwhelmed by the dominant speedsters and sports junkies. That may be the true in a physical sense. However, just because we may be few and far between in this part of the world, the po...
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They’ve Got the Horn, Big Time
Men on Priti Baiks in panama. Check out Jose Castrellon’s series of photographs of Panamanian machismo expressed in the aestheticisation of otherwise basic bicycles. I love the fire extinguisher powered horns. One of the things I love about cycle culture is it’s constant reinvention in wonderful ways we never could have predicted. Cou...
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Very nice campaign!
Auckland Council should take note of this one … It certainly beats those totally lame ‘breakfasts’ swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.youtube.com/v/uVwtTM4cRe8&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1", "vvq-2658-youtube-1", "640", "518", "10", vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes);
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Funny as!
This is definitely the best Hitler video I have seen! swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.youtube.com/v/ADoy7GgnF_s&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1", "vvq-2528-youtube-1", "640", "518", "10", vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes);
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Blown away
Wow – I like this … http://www.vimeo.com/30483592 http://vimeo.com/30483592 The idea that you can earn credit by cycling is awesome! So … if this is a twinkle in Germany’s eye, and reckoning that Germany is about 30? years ahead of us …. watch out, in a town near you in about 2045!!
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Helmets …. again!
It seems that those pesky mandatory helmet laws in Oz are one again sinking a perfectly good bike share scheme … http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/a-year-on-citycycle-not-off-to-a-flying-start-20110930-1l1ee.html Latest figures released by the council show people made an average of 416 trips a day on the CityCycle scheme last week, ...
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Number 8 wire
Copenhagen not only does bicycling well, it is now out doing us in number 8 wire expertise! These are worrying times indeed. http://www.vimeo.com/30976505
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Nicely done!
Nice to see … As Bicycle Canberra points out: The City of Sydney is once again showing the rest of the country how to promote cycling culture with its new cycling infrastructure and promotion videos. swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.youtube.com/v/gZQ6UizFhUQ&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1", "vvq-2181-youtube-1", "640"...
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Dutch cyclists talk helmets & bicycles
Here is a video made by Paul van Bellen from Australia when he was in Amsterdam earlier this year … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il1IGKaol_M&feature=player_embedded swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.youtube.com/v/Il1IGKaol_M&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1", "vvq-2160-youtube-1", "640", "518", "10", vvqexpressinstal...
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No Promises …
Why can’t I find a commitment to a target modal share for cycling in NZ? The city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch has big plans and is currently updating its cycling infrastructure. The city wants to raise the modal share of cycling from 33% to 44% of all trips. 27 European cities have signed the “Charter of Brussels” in the European P...
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Did you get wet today?
People often blame the weather for not cycling but I ride everyday and very rarely get wet. Today, for instance, I remained dry – it was chucking it down when I was ready to leave this morning but I just waited 10 minutes and it stopped. Same deal coming home. It rains in countries with very strong cycling cultures as well – so don̵...
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I’m ‘enthused and confident’, how about you?
There is an interesting post over at Bicycle Canberra, entitled Getting Ready for Battle. It is obvious that Canberra and Auckland are ‘cut from the same cloth’. A diagramme from the post caught my eye and I have taken the liberty of reproducing here: I am not sure where this diagramme has come from but it seems very optimistic to ...
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Bicycles make a difference
More good news … but for NYC, not Auckland unfortunately. It is interesting to see that they are battling the same paradigm shift issues that we have – you gotta love that taxi driver! swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.youtube.com/v/18ZyA9PIQwQ&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1", "vvq-1303-youtube-1", "640", "518", "10...
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Should old people run behind cars?
This is a fun video from Hungary … I don’t speak Hungarian but I get most of what’s going on … However, I am totally stumped by why they are towing old people behind their cars later on in the video. Ideas anyone? swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.youtube.com/v/ngwMJTqgq0g&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=...
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Bike share in China
Here is a very interesting video from Street Films on ‘The Biggest, Baddest Bike-Share in the World: Hangzhou China‘ http://www.vimeo.com/24241296 Anyone talking about public transport, should also be talking about bike share. You’ll notice that the commentator says that they have a lot of public transport but that this doesn...
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