An occasional update on items from the Velo-city.
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STREETSBLOG CAPTURES VANCOUVER’S VELO VISION
In June, the city of Vancouver hosted the Velo-City Global 2012 Conference, where international cycling planners, professionals and advocates convened.
Streetfilms partnered with the city to produce this video about Vancouver’s investment in bicycling:
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Lots of familiar faces.
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ERGO, PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS SHOULD WEAR HELMETS
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MOTORDOM AND CYCLING IN EUROPE
For the cost of one kilometre of urban freeway you could build 150km of bicycle paths, 10,000km of bicycle lanes or 100 well designed 30kmph zones.”
“Some 80 per cent young German adults think people don’t need a private car anymore because public transport is sufficiently developed.”
“Car ownership in Germany is expected to plummet by more than half from 570 per 1,000 people today to 250 per 1,000 people by 2050.”
All these factors, says the European Cyclists’ Federation’s Julian Ferguson, make it extraordinary that only 0.7 per cent of EU funding for transport goes towards cycling provision, when 7 per cent of European citizens use bikes as their main mode of transport. …
Cars are still king.
He writes: “The European Commission unveiled a Cars 2020 Strategy last week, which gave the automotive industry access to a share of more than €80bn in EU funding
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This year’s pART Project – sponsored by SRAM, a Chicago-based bicycle-component company – has gathered 80 artists to undertake a quixotic task: assemble a vibrant artwork using a box of 100 parts like gears, chains and frame-related miscellany.
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KICKSTAND COMICS
Yup, a whole site just for in-jokes and insightful observations on the culture and politics of cycling:
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