The Green Lane Project is bringing together six U.S. cities – Austin, Chicago, Washington D.C., Memphis, Portland and San Francisco – to build more protected bike trails. We interviewed Martha Roskowski - the project’s Director.
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Want more studies and data on bike lanes improving local economies? You got it.
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Electric bikes aren’t a common site in most cities. Could this ebike change that? We recently got the chance to ‘test-drive’ it. Here’s our verdict.
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What if bike networks were designed around feedback from cyclists of different abilities? Our latest post looks at a new web app aiming to make that possible.
There’s a bike for everyone.
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“We are a unique market in a unique city. San Francisco is surrounded by a bay and New York City is an island. Kansas City is in two states, borders two major rivers, and has three main neighborhoods. It was therefore difficult to determine what is a ‘deliverable’ area for a bike courier. But, that is the challenge of doing this job in Kansas City. And whether is it raining or windy we are getting paid to ride our bikes. What more could you ask for?”
Rudy Gonzales on being a bike courier in Kansas City.
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An Interview with Rudy Gonzalez - Bike Courier in a “Bike Depressed” City
Cowtown Couriers is a bike courier service delivering through Kansas City – a notoriously car-dominated metropolis. This Big City recently got the opportunity to talk to founder Rudy Gonzalez about his ambition to change local perceptions of bicycle delivery and improve the city in the process.
“Cities need to invest in people not just infrastructure - Northern Ireland has 1 cycle engineer in Roads Service, and he’s part time!”
@aaroncoulter on creating cycling cities. More on This Big City.
「城市不僅要投資基礎建設，更得投資於人，北愛爾蘭公路局只有一位單車工程師，還是兼職人員！」﹣更多內容請見城事。
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We heard loads of great ideas for cycling cities during our recent #citytalk tweetchat. Here’s ten of the best.
在前次#citytalk討論會中，我們收集許多關於單車城市的精彩構想，並整理出其中十項。
“I like to say we have no cyclists in Copenhagen, we have citizens who use bikes to get from A to B.”
Andreas Rohl, manager of the City of Copenhagen’s bicycle programme.
「我總覺得，哥本哈根沒有單車騎士，只是有些居民會騎單車往來兩地之間。」
﹣ Andreas Rohl，丹麥哥本哈根市單車計畫負責人
“Mass urbanization presents an amazing opportunity to get more people cycling: 30% of urban trips are less than 3km (1.86 miles) and more than half of all trips are less than 5km (3.1 miles).”
The European Cyclist’s Federation on the potential of urban cycling.
「大規模都市化有機會吸引更多人騎單車，三成都會區民眾單趟移動距離低於三公里，逾半數低於五公里。」
- 「歐洲單車騎士聯盟」說明都市單車潛力。
With the Mayoral elections looming in London, this scheme is asking people to ‘vote with their bikes’. You can sign up here.
英國倫敦市長選舉將至，這項行動呼籲民眾「用單車投票」。
