“ I think our roads are statistically safer largely because soft targets, particularly child cyclists, have almost entirely retreated from them. But the roads are not really safer. It’s just that people have learned to avoid them unless they themselves go out in armour, and have narrowed their lives as a result.
Peter Hitchens in the Mail on Sunday. Yes, the Mail on Sunday.
Tom Youngman
Co-founder of Green Vision: The Bath Youth Climate Movement, member of the Department for Energy and Climate Change's Youth Advisory Panel and member of the UK Youth Climate Coalition's delegation to the United Nations climate change negotiations. Human being and active citizen. thomas@youngman.me.uk.
If you love bicycles, banter and being facetious towards stupid policing, you’d better watch.
I hate the assumption that bikes belong in bike lanes, where it is arguably much more dangerous. This guy got stung in NY, so he made a little movie. 5 days later it has nearly 3 million views.
Kasey Klimes: The Real Reason Why Bicycles are the Key to Better Cities
Beautiful article by Kasey Klimes on ‘Next American City’. Although the pretension of the initial proposition of the bicycle as “an instrument of experiential understanding” may put you off, it’s well worth continuing. The pretension is justified.
Yes, the bicycle is a stunningly efficient machine of transportation, but in the city it is so much more. The bicycle is new vision for the blind man. It is a thrilling tool of communication, an experiential device for the beauty and the ills of the urban context. One cannot turn a blind eye on a bicycle - they must acknowledge their community, all of it.
Interaction with an urban environment - and a rural environment - on a bicycle is a so much more complete experience. Connection to humanity and the built environment we have created makes cycling so much more personal than the detachment of a car.
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Bath Cycle Races - Round 2 - 11th May 2011 by WestfieldWanderer on Flickr.
Cycle races are being organised in Bath’s leafy Victoria Park. They’re open to the public but I’m not brave enough to enter….
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This is what a bike lane looks like. Bilbao.
“Made by Walnut Studio, the Bike Six Pack Holder is a convenient way to cart around your favorite brewskis without having to drive and drink.” (Bike Beer Holder… via Inhabitat)
Ministerial Interest in a local-level transport scheme!?
The Department for Transport’s recurring problem is that it focussing on large scale, long-distance journeys rather than the short ones people make every day. Bath’s ‘Two Tunnels’ project falls in the latter category, using old railway tunnels to forge a link between Midford and the centre of Bath.
He (Norman Baker) will meet volunteers and representatives of the environmental charity Sustrans to talk about the link being driven through two old railway tunnels between Oldfield Park and Midford.This is a most pleasant surprise to see a transport minister will be visiting the project today! Hopefully this signals a welcome change in direction and renewed interest in cycle infrastructure.
“ Copenhagen has developed a force of Bike Butlers. … They find illegally parked bikes, give each one some some fresh oil for the chain and top off the tires with air, and then leave a note asking the owner to park in a rack in the future…. Oh, to have urban problems like Copenhagen does.
Bike Butlers: Park Illegally, They’ll Oil Your Chain and Top Off Your Tires - Transportation - GOOD
The art is by Australian Peter Drew. The photo is by Carlton Reid.
