This week’s Good Cycling Faciltiy is a protected bi-directional cycleway in the city centre of the Hague in the Netherlands. There is an entry point for motor traffic here into a business park – the movements of cycle traffic and motor traffic are completely separated, via traffic signals. There is an induction loop mounted in […]

Year-long trial will begin with March introduction of 400 electric bikes engineered by Uber and operating in more than 30 countries Thu 6 Feb 2020 A new Uber-owned electric bike-sharing service will put hundreds of bikes on Melbourne’s streets as part of a one-year trial. The cities of Yarra and Port Phillip have signed a

Mark Sutton5 February, 2020 There are links the world over connecting the conversion of space to something more pedestrian and safe cycling friendly to improved retail spend and customer dwell time. Should this be the bike industry’s main campaign aim, asks Laura Laker… It’s a simple fact that every industry needs new customers for it

This Man Created Traffic Jams on Google Maps Using a Red Wagon Full of Phones By pulling 99 phones down empty streets, artist Simon Wreckert made it look like they were gridlocked on Google Maps. By Matthew Gault Feb 3 2020, 6:07pmShareTweetSnap Matthew Gault In Tech Artist Simon Wreckert walked the streets of Berlin tugging

Transport correspondent, London @BBCTomEdwards on Twitter With growing pressure to cut carbon emissions and reduce the number of vehicles on the road, some small cameras could help provide the answer to London’s emission woes. You could easily miss it. It’s a small triangular grey box high up on a lamp-post but it could hold the

Mayor urges backing as report sets out predicted gains from walking and cycling scheme Lucy CampbellTue 28 Jan 2020 06.00 GMT A joined-up cycling and walking network in Greater Manchester could provide a national blueprint for reducing congestion and air pollution and improving health, a report says. Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, and

European cities offer a roadmap for life with fewer cars James NeviusJan 29, 2020, 8:00am EST put over 13,000 miles on their vehicles every year. If car commercials are to be believed, this is all done off-roading into the woods and driving sports cars through empty, rain-slicked city streets.In reality, much of this mileage is

This week’s Good Cycling Facility is a new bi-directional cycleway in the city centre of Delft. This is an area formerly dominated by the railway running through the city on a raised concrete viaduct. The railway has been buried underground, and the surface has been redeveloped. This path runs through this development along the line

Friday, 31 January 2020 A 41-year-old man has been sentenced to three years in prison by a court in Brussels for the theft of a bicycle from a metro station in Auderghem last year. The judge at the trial of repeat offender Charles S. qualified the theft as an “ecological crime,” as it had forced