An occasional update on items from the Velo-city.
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DOUBLE THE NUMBER
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SLOW DOWN: Urban bikers go faster than cars
… look around (if you have a second) and you might notice that a lot of the new ideas seeping into cities are aimed not at making them faster, but slowing them down. The buzziest mode of transport now is a bicycle. Streetcars, a pokey throwback, are returning. Walkable neighborhoods, traffic-calming measures and “slow zones” are catching on, and freeways are being torn down and replaced with lower-speed boulevards. Even things like sit-down pedestrian plazas and pop-up cafes seem to indicate a desire to slacken the pace.
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THE PUCHER LIST
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John Pucher provides a reading list:
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John Pucher, Ralph Buehler, Dafna Merom, and Adrian Bauman, American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 101, No. S1, pp. 310-317.
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Ralph Buehler, John Pucher, Dafna Merom, and Adrian Bauman, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Vol. 40, No. 9, September 2011, pp. 241-250).
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em>John Pucher, Ralph Buehler, and Mark Seinen,Transportation Research A, Vol. 45, No. 6, 2011, pp. 451-475.
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CYCLING = HAPPINESS
You knew this:
The happiest cities all have a high number of cyclists, John Helliwell, a renowned happiness expert and economist at University of British Columbia, explained …
… to Sarah Hampson at The Globe.
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