Annals of Cycling – 118: Fun with logos … Bike storage in Japan … Investing in cycling pays off

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FUN WITH SYMBOLS

Ken Ohrn found this one near Granville Island:

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Chris Bruntlett found this on the Central Valley Greenway:

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HOW TO STORE BICYCLES IN JAPAN

Interesting what you can do when you have a wealth of creative talent and the necessity of dealing with small spaces.

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I immediately became a fan of Danny Choo.
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PROOF OF THE EXREMELY OBVIOUS

From The Guardian: Investment in cycling can increase bike journeys, study shows.

Financial investment in cycling can increase the share of journeys undertaken on bike, according to a new peer-reviewed study. This might seem like a do-bears-poop-in-the-woods sort of question but it’s not always cut-and-dried that spending to achieve a goal actually works. Look at roadbuilding: billions of pounds are pumped into constructing new roads in order to reduce congestion, yet congestion keeps on increasing.

However, if local and national government invested in cycling, there would be a quantifiable increase in the amount of cycling and a corresponding drop in journey made by private motor car, found the researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, who published their work in the journal Social Science & Medicine.

For public health reasons this is exceedingly good news but to a car-centric Department for Transport (DfT) the study poses a problem: there’s a deep fear of being seen to be waging a “war on motorists”.

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