An occasional update on items from the Velo-city.
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BIKES, CAMERA, ACTION
You’ve seen a lot of the videos in Annals of Cycling mentioned in this New York Times article – but now they’re all in one convenient place.
These short visual clips — featuring police stops, arguments, indignant commentary and sometimes humor — are fast becoming a staple of urban cycling, fueled by Web sites that gladly post them and by relatively inexpensive cameras that can be mounted on helmets and handlebars.
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BIKESHARING UPDATES
Optimising Bike Sharing in European Cities: A handbook. A comprehensive report, says Ron Richings, “full of does, don’ts, and lessons learned from hard experience.” For the full report, click here.
Next American City does an update on The Future of Bike-Sharing Schemes in the U.S. World Streets looks at bike-sharing fom an African perspective in this post.
The impact Bixi is having in Toronto – here.
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THE COST OF NOT INSTALLING BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE
An interesting perpective from David Hembrow, on some innovative accounting and costing approaches used. And a new University of Massachusetts study that shows that the construction of bike lanes creates 46 percent more jobs than car-only road projects. As well as more ‘economic logic’ on bike infrastructure in the New York Times.
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THE GENDER GAP
And still in the New York Times, here’s a piece on why women cycle less in North America, and what can be done:
… city officials in Portland have been able to greatly increase the number of female cyclists. In 1992, male cyclists outnumbered female cyclists four to one; by 2006, the ratio shrank to two to one. City officials credit a program that offers clinics for women on bicycle maintenance that has drawn roughly 800 people since it began seven years ago and organizes female group rides in the summer. But Roger Geller, Portland’s bicycle coordinator, said that the rise in female cyclists could largely be attributed to creating safer lanes for all riders.
And check out where Vancouver is on this chart:
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