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| Manhattan Community Board Unanimously Approves Eighth Avenue Cycle Track DOT's plan for a protected bike path on Eighth Avenue got the thumbs up from Community Board 2. On Tuesday, the transportation committee approved a resolution expressing support for the cycle track, and on Thursday, the full board did the same. |
| Portland: City seeks volunteers for expanded rider count effort The City of Portland is expanding the scope of their annual bike counts and they need volunteers to help them do it. |
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| California: Bike Boulevards Coming to Long Beach The Long Beach Press-Telegram reports that Long Beach officials are planning two new bike boulevards for the city. While the routes aren't set yet, we do know that there will be one north-south route and one east-west route. |
| Danish IKEA Intros Fleet Of Trailer Bikes To Get Those Flatpacks Home After a survey found that 20 percent of its customers arrived by bike, the IKEA outside of Copenhagen has hooked up with the Danish Freetrailer service to offer (relatively free) Velorbis bikes with trailers to customers. |
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| Last Friday, at the end of Chicago's Bike to Work Week, Mayor Daley made an interesting proposition at the week's culminating rally; bikes should share the bus lanes on downtown streets to accommodate the surge in bike traffic. |
| Manhattan to Enjoy 6.9 Mile Temporary Car-Free Route While the Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg may have failed to get his plans for a congestion charge approved, he's not stopping the fight for liveable streets just yet. His latest plan is to create a temporary 6.9 mile car-free route from Brooklyn Br |
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| NYC: Mayor Bloomberg & Friends Announce "Saturday Streets" Essentially the plan opens Park Avenue to pedestrians and cyclists from 72nd thru to the Brooklyn Bridge (using other connectors) on August 9th, 16th, and 23rd from 7 AM to 1 PM! |
| Obama: I'll Boost Funds for Bike-Ped Projects If Elected Barack Obama, in a private 20-minute meeting with members of the Bikes Belong board of directors, told them if he were elected president he would increase funding for cycling and pedestrian projects. And the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee als |
| USA: Obama bicycle meeting was "a coming of age moment" "I've been doing the bike policy stuff forever, but, in the last 30 days," he said, "I feel like more has happened than in the last 30 yrs." |
| Cycling Saves Australia $200 million in Health Costs The study, Cycling: Getting Australia Moving, funded by the Australian government and prepared by Melbourne University and the Cycling Promotion Fund concluded that thanks to the increased health of cyclists, public health services are spared an estimated |
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| NYC: Car-Free Saturdays Will Open Path For Peds and Bikes From City Hall to 72nd On three Saturday mornings in August, the Department of Transportation will ban cars from nearly 5 miles of city streets to make way for cyclists, joggers and walkers. |
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| Man on a bike is tackled, then tasered by Portland Police A Portland man says he was tackled, pushed off his bike, and then tasered repeatedly by a Portland Police officer in Southeast Portland last night because he didn't have a front light on his bike. |
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| NYC Bicyclists Get Their Own MapQuest The good old New York City Bike Map is about to face some stiff competition. On Sunday, three enterprising cyclists launched "Ride the City," a web site that finds the safest and most efficient routes for those on two wheels. |
| Taking a Ride, with a Couple Thousand Friends, by the LA River Yesterday marked the 8th Los Angeles River Ride. Thousands of cyclists, riders and even some Ridazz gathered at Griffith Park to go on organized rides of 10, 50, 70 or 100 miles. |
| Bells ring in Portland's first Blessing of the Bikes In a respectful and poignant outdoor ceremony, St. Mary's Cathedral in Northwest Portland held their first-ever Blessing of the Bikes on Sunday. |
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| CNN: "My Next Vehicle Will Be a Bicycle" In the non-random sample of 42,275 respondents, more people said they are leaning towards a bike than a truck or SUV. |
| TreeHugger: Obama Wraps Up Nomination, Celebrates By Riding His Bike This bit of news should erase any doubt left that Obama would be sympathetic to cause of cyclists. Then again, President Bush is known to be an avid cyclist, yet to our knowledge he hasn't gone out of his way to promote cycling for recreation or transport |
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Australia: Cyclists want protected bicycle lanes
Bicycle Victoria wants to see bicycle lanes with a higher level of protection than just a white line trialled on some routes in Melbourne
Governors Island to Serve as Testing Ground for NYC Bike-Share
Turns out the wait for free bikes will be a lot shorter. Starting this week, 250 bikes at the island's rental outfit, Bike and Roll, will be available to visitors at no charge on Fridays, thanks to sponsorship from Transportation Alternatives.Labels: elsewhere
| Kingston needs more bike lanes While the City of Toronto is celebrating Bicycle Month and has plans to expand its 90 kilometres of bike lanes to 495 kilometres by 2011, city councillors in Kingston are delaying making decisions about this issue. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| As gas prices soar, so does interest in bicycling in Massachusetts Drivers clear a lane, bicyclists are taking to the road in record numbers in Massachusetts. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cycle Fun Montreal: Bikes and local trains - the Montréal experience Cycle Fun Montreal asks: The suburban train system: does it provide good access for urban cyclists to get to suburban/rural cycling destinations?
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