Cycling is similar all over the world… or is it? Even in utility cycling the Dutch have some cycling habits that are quite exceptional. What defines Dutch cycling? A lighthearted look at cycling in the Netherlands. A society will only develop habits like these when people do not have to … See video

This paper evaluates policy options for responding to rising fuel prices. There is popular support for policies that minimize fuel prices through subsidies and tax eductions, but such policies harm consumers and the economy overall because they increase total fuel consumption and vehicle travel, and therefore associated costs such as traffic and parking congestion, infrastructure costs, traffic crashes, trade imbalances and pollution emissions. Read paper

On Sundays, cyclists and pedestrians have the city’s main avenue to themselves

Families riding bikes, children on roller skates and barely a car in sight; it’s hard to believe this is usually one of the busiest roads in Mexico City. Read article

We’d like to see some of this here please!

The (UK) Times has launched a public campaign and 8-point manifesto calling for cities to be made fit for cyclists; read article

A safety initiative by the Met is encouraging cyclists and HGV drivers and cyclists to swap places

For most cyclists, HGVs are the thing most feared on urban roads. Despite only comprising 5% of traffic, they are involved in about 50% of cyclist deaths each year, and many more serious injuries. Read article

Article in the British Medical Journal

European Cycling Federation: Facts & Figures

A couple of interesting facts from the above

• ~2.5 more bicycles than cars were produced – globally – in 2000
• Safety in numbers: further clear evidence that the more cyclists there are, the safer it is for all of them; data are given for the UK, but not for Ireland

Make a glow-in-the-dark night bike, with phosphorescent paint

EUROPE COULD cut its total greenhouse gas emissions by more than 25 per cent if every population cycled as regularly as the Danes, according to a pioneering study which tracks the environmental impact of cycling. Read more