Press Cuttings from around the world
Alternatives to ever expanding bike parking lots at train stations – Fietsberaad Creating more parking facilities is not necessarily the only solution to overloaded bicycle parking facilities at train stations. Shifting the excess demand to another station could be an option
How to Build a Better Bike Lane (and Get More People Out on Bikes) – Commute – The Atlantic Cities Martha Roskowski has been a bicycle advocate in the United States for some 20 years. It hasn’t always been easy. These days, though, things are starting to feel different. Why doesn't Gen Y care about [...]
Climate change will barely influence bike usage – Fietsberaad The influence of the weather is sufficient to be reflected in nationwide cycling patterns over the span of a year. This still doesn’t particularly mean that climate changes will greatly affect cycle usage in the Netherlands.
If cycling infrastructure ideas are ignored, very little will change | Peter Walker | Environment | guardian.co.uk The parliamentary cycling inquiry must understand that the changes required to get Britain cycling are systematic
Welfare: More for less | The Economist IN “THE LION AND THE UNICORN”, written in 1941, George Orwell invoked the spirit of England in a handful of images—“solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays, smoky towns and windy roads, green fields and red pillar-boxes”. When this correspondent tried to summon up appropriate images for the spirit of [...]
Industry welcomes bicycle funding boost from the government | Bicycle Business | BikeBiz Sustrans and British Cycling respond to cycling funding boost from the transport secretary Minister for cycling: UK will never be like the Netherlands | Environment | guardian.co.uk Norman Baker welcomes the all-party cycling inquiry but says advocates need to be ‘realistic’ Andrew [...]
Growth In Cycle To Work Scheme – BikeRadar The bike-buying tax incentive scheme Cycle to Work saw a 7.9 percent increase in takeup during 2012 compared to 2011, according to newly published industry figures. Wien: Radfahren im Winter boomt « DiePresse.com Ein Drittel der Wiener, die im Sommer mit dem Rad unterwegs sind, fährt jetzt [...]
Janette Sadik-Khan: The Benefits of a Well-Designed City – Businessweek One of our greatest innovations is our ability to move quickly. The normal capital construction program takes about five years. But we’ve been able to transform city streets virtually overnight. You can literally paint the city you want to see. You can do it with [...]
Streetfilms | Green Lane Project in New York: City to City Solutions The Green Lane Project is a partnership of six U.S. cities working to implement next-generation protected bike lanes on city streets. This past fall, the Green Lane Project brought a couple dozen transportation planners from those cities together in New York City for [...]
UK cycling culture 'requires long-term commitment from government' | Life and style | guardian.co.uk Strategic, non-partisan planning is needed to make Britain a nation of cyclists, experts tell parliamentary inquiry
World Highways – Using ITS to maximise safety and traffic flow for cycling Increasingly, Danish traffic planners are turning to technology as a tool for planning cycling infrastructure. In Ramboll Denmark, GIS is today an essential tool for both prioritizing and maintaining networks of bike paths. Using both in-house developed GIS applications that analyze data [...]
Danish ambassador: cycling in Britain is seen as an activity for the few | Life and style | The Guardian Anne Hedensted Steffensen says cycling in London is fun, but in Denmark it is ‘normal, on a par with brushing your teeth’ Cycling in Britain: government to get serious with all-party inquiry | Politics | [...]
Cycle city | Opinion | Oped | ekantipur.com If Kathmandu is pedestrian and cycle-friendly, there’s no need to invest massive resources on roads and mass transit
More protected lanes for bicyclists pop up in cities Recent studies show that protected bike lanes can benefit a city economically.
Millioner af kroner til cykelindsats | TV2 Lorry Region Hovedstaden sætter penge af til cykelsuperstier. Why cycling in high-vis may be not as safe as you think | guardian.co.uk A study of motorcyclists shows head-to-toe fluorescent yellow does not always ensure you are visible
European Cyclists' Federation – Cycling Solutions: Why Germany Has All The Answers Germany’s fast becoming one of Europe’s most impressive (and largest) cycling nations. Time for bicycle advocates to take a trip across the Rhine, explains Fabian Kuester.
Slowing down the cities | In English | EL PAÍS An end to road deaths in our towns and cities. Not such a utopian idea as it sounds; in Pontevedra, Galicia, it’s already coming to pass thanks to the imposition of a 30 kilometer per hour (km/h) speed limit there. Evidence from around the world [...]
Is Boris spending as wisely on cycling as he could? | Politics | guardian.co.uk Transport for London has acknowledged the need to improve safety for the capital’s cyclists if their numbers are to grow more quickly
Bike airbag tested in crash test – Fietsberaad A special Bike Crash Airbag was successfully demonstrated at the Automotive Campus in Helmond. This airbag is the result of research commissioned by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment and the Cycling Council in order to improve the traffic safety of vulnerable road users such as cyclists [...]
Eltis – The urban mobility portal – Show news – Cyclists cross safely at red lights in Brussels (Belgium) A trial permitting cyclists to cross the red light to turn right at eight junctions in Brussels has found this action to be completely safe. This finding results from an evaluation study by the Belgian Road [...]
Bicycle infrastructure in Denmark
By Troels Andersen, COWI A/S The infrastructure is the basic for developing a cycle culture. Most major cities in Denmark do have rather fine facilities for cyclists, even though the cycle net still needs to be extended and improved. The major Danish cities do have like 300 – 500 kilometres of cycle paths each [...]
Bicycling Statistics in Denmark
By Troels Andersen, COWI A/S The bicycle share in Denmark is 19 % which is the second highest in Europe. After the war cycling dropped to half of the previous level, but since the 1970′ies cycling has increased in mainly the major cities. The bigger a city is the higher share cycling has of [...]
By Erik Bølling-Ladegaard, The Danish Cyclist Federation and Pablo Celis, Celis Counsult Cycling as a means of transport is on the increase in many towns and cities around the world, and further growth in the number of cyclists is expected in the coming years. At the same time, a lot is being done at many [...]
Collection of Cycle Concepts 2012
The first edition of Collection of Cycle Concepts was published in 2000 and enjoyed a wide circulation among everyone interested in bicycle traffic. The simultaneous publication of the English version spread the Danish bicycle traffic experience to many parts of the world. The second edition, Collection of Cycle Concepts 2012, updates the field, featuring new [...]
Good, Better, Best – The City of Copenhagen’s Bicycle Strategy 2011-2025
In Copenhagen’s new bicycle strategy you can read about the new initiatives and plans, which lay down guidelines for the longterm and overriding priorities within the bicycle area.
It can be hard to determine the exact effect of cycle campaigns, but the tendency in the Danish bicycle culture is clear: In cities that make a systematic effort at promoting cycling, more and more people choose to cycle. There is no doubt that cycle campaigns play a part in this success. This catalogue gives an overview of 14 concrete campaigns, their goals, how they worked in practice, and their results.
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