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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

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

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