From www.bikeportland.org today:
The Portland Department of Transportation has plans in the works for its first segregated bike path to be completed in 2010, along a section of road that is being completely reworked. The current plans include a bicycle path separated from the road by a curb, then a planter median between the cycle path [...]
Glenn Billingham, a UK expatriate living in Amsterdam, eloquently and entertainingly writes:
Powered By Our Own Shapely Thighs
The morning gathering took place again.
A Dutch rush-hour is a little different to the other global scenes of 9am and 5pm chaos. New Yorkers hustle and bustle accompanied by a take-out coffee amidst a sea of yellow cabs. City [...]
More good news, this time from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada:
Rob Faulkner
The Hamilton Spectator
BURLINGTON (Oct 16, 2008)
In the shadow of Burlington City Hall, the tall, lanky Dutchman Wim Mulder looks down at the bike helmet as if he doesn’t often wear one or hasn’t even seen one before.
Yet, the traffic engineer visiting from Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, is [...]
A lack of infrastructure — not sprawl — hinders the adoption of bicycles.
by Adam Stein
The recent surge in gas prices and growing concern over carbon emissions have goosed efforts to increase bicycle ridership in metropolitan areas, but the U.S. still lags far behind Europe and Asia. A recent survey of worldwide trends in the Washington [...]
From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, via Bikeprovidence.org:
Bicycle czar will try to tame city streets
Mayor creates post to improve cycling
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
By Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Stephen Patchan prefers urban cycling to pedaling through the countryside because it’s “more exciting, for obvious reasons.”
The new Pittsburgh bike-pedestrian coordinator’s job, though, is to make pedaling or walking the city’s 89 [...]
Back to the future! I watched this last night, but couldn’t for the life of me find the real video embed stuff (way to go MSNBC!). No panic, of course another bike blogger would’ve seen it too! Bingo:
On so many levels this has never happened to me:
1. I watched the news and felt upbeat and excited [...]
Here are some excerpts from regular/local Amsterdam and Dutch national news outlets. (The English translations are mine.)
From our local newspaper Het Parool: (published from the national press agency ANP)
Tree Root Pressure On Sarphatistraat Dealt With
“Good news for all cyclists who frequently commute via Sarphatistraat. For years they got ‘launched’ by the bump in the road [...]
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