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Cycling Across Scandinavia: Rudolf Steiner Found, Thanks to James Turell

12:21 pm in bike friendly city, bikes, eco-travel, scandinavia, sweden by TreeHugger

cyclister.jpg Counting the number of bikes on the bike path in Boras, Sweden. Guest poster Robert Ouellette has written for the National Post, Corporate Knights and his own Reading Toronto. He is cycling across Sweden and reports: Leaving Boras takes us past a digital sign that counts and displays the number of cyclists using the adjacent bike lane. It is a good idea. I'd like to see guerilla versions put on Canadian streets. We need to make visible the growing number of cyclists our politicians are eager to ignore... anyone want to take me up on this? Mobile automated bike counters have to be easy to make and use . . . ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cycling Across Scandinavia: Gothenburg to Boras, Sweden Doesn’t Strip

5:23 pm in bike friendly city, bike tours, bikes, Cars & Transportation, scandinavia, sweden by TreeHugger

map of sweden route image "To see the Google Map version of this route, follow this link." Guest poster Robert Ouellette has written for the National Post, Corporate Knights and his own Reading Toronto. He is cycling across Sweden and reports: Sarah and I have spent the better part of an hour trying to find the major road leading out of Gothenburg towards our first stop, Boras, an industrial town built on the textile trade. Something is missing out here at the fringe of Sweden's second largest city. It makes na...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Copenhagenizing Has Another Name: The Slow Bike Movement

11:53 am in bike friendly city, bikes, biking, slow movement by TreeHugger

slow bike photo Image credit Lloyd Alter We have talked about "Copenhagenizing", Mikael Colville-Anderson's term for learning to ride bikes like they do in Copenhagen, in street clothes, at a comfortable pace, usually without a helmet. Andrew Sullivan points us to the American version, where it has become part of the Slow Movement, and is now called Slow Biking. (My own idea for a Read the full story on TreeHugger

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London’s Boris Bikes are One Year Old

5:07 am in bicycle commute, bike friendly city, bikes, Business & Politics, Cars & Transportation by TreeHugger

bike serp photo Photo: B. Alter Happy Birthday to the Boris Bikes, or Barclays Cycle Hire, the official name. It's been a year now since the rental bicycle system was introduced to London, and cyclists have taken to it with a passion. With 6 million journeys to date, they have captured the public imagination. Despite fears, only 200 of the 6,000 bikes have had to be scrapped due to vandalism and there have been no serious injuries reported. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Brompton Dock Is A Different Kind of Bikeshare System

12:53 pm in bike friendly city, bikes, biking, london by TreeHugger

brompton dock photo Image credit Brompton Dock TreeHuggers will be familiar with bikeshare programs like the Vélib or the Bixi, where durable city bikes are borrowed from and returned to docking stations. These systems are not without their problems, including often not finding a convenient place to return the bike. The Brompton Dock is an interesting experiment in a different kind of bikeshare. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bike Nation to Ford Nation: "We Just Want To Share"

9:57 am in bike friendly city, bikes, biking, toronto by TreeHugger

jarvis cyclists photo Images credit Martin Reis Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was elected on a platform of "Respect For Taxpayers", but that hasn't stopped him from spending $400,000 of taxpayers money to rip up bike lanes that are purported to be slowing traffic. Last night, Toronto's Bike Nation turned out to demand some room on the road. More than a thousand cyclists and supporters rode up Jarvis Street to Toronto City Hall, chanting "We just want to share." As bike activist Dave Meslin said:
There's a word most of us learned in kindergarten. It's called 'sharing." What we have be...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A New "Lost Generation" Cycles Across Scandinavia To Understand North America

12:07 pm in bike friendly city, bikes, biking, copenhagen, scandinavia by TreeHugger

robert-ouellette-bikes.jpg Guest poster Robert Ouellette (seen above with bikes) has written for the National Post, Corporate Knights and his own Reading Toronto. He is cycling across Sweden and reports: Toronto, a city rated as one of the most livable in the world by The Economist, just elected a new mayor. The unlikely ascension of a little-known suburban councillor who hates government spending to owner of the city's keys was a surprise to almost everyone, especially the departing administration who had done so much to raise Toronto's international re...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Hiplok: A Wearable Bike Lock That’s Not Just For Tattooed Hipsters

11:31 am in bike friendly city, bikes, biking, designers by TreeHugger

hiplok bike lock photo Images Credit Hiplok The weight of a bike lock is inversely proportional to the weight of your bike, and directly proportional to the cost. They are also a pain to store on the bike, and I often sling my heavy duty cable lock across my shoulders; No doubt it will garrote me in an accident some day. But now Industrial designers John Abrahams and Benjamin Smith have solved the problem with the very ingenious Hiplok....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Toronto Bike Lanes: How Did It Come To This?

10:59 am in bike friendly city, bikes, politics, toronto, urban life by TreeHugger

jarvis bike lane Click to enlarge or go to Craigslist here It's official; Toronto is tearing up its one year old Jarvis Street bike lanes and adding back a fifth driving lane. One Councillor said it's because a constituent complained I have 4 kids and I can't get home to them for dinner." Another said "more roads make cars go faster" which is just what cyclists need on Jarvis when there are no bike lanes. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Gorgeous Bike Storage Building Shows How To Treat A Bike Right

11:01 am in bike friendly city, bikes, biking, netherlands by TreeHugger

bike storage building nunc architects photo Images credit Nunc Architects In some countries, cyclists are seen as more than rule-breaking freeloaders who slow down cars; they are seen as a viable part of the transportation system that needs its own infrastructure investment. For instance, parking can be a problem in a country like the Netherlands where so many people cycle. In Zaandam, just outside of Amsterdam, Nunc Architects have completed a 700 bike parking building that probably makes every cyclist in North America green with envy. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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