Cycling is booming during coronavirus – let’s keep it that way
4 years, 11 months ago

Cycling is booming during coronavirus – let’s keep it that way

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Like many cities around the world, Wuhan’s air pollution significantly improved when it became the first global city to lock down and the roads emptied of cars. Indeed, cities like Paris and Milan are learning lessons from Wuhan and embracing the bicycle as a serious mode of transport in an effort to keep air pollution from returning to pre-lockdown levels. Paris is building 650km of pop-up “corona bike lanes” from 11 May when lockdown starts to lift; Milan is expanding its cycling provision over the summer. The plan, spearheaded by Manchester’s cycling commissioner and former Olympian Chris Boardman, is for an 1,800-mile cycle networks across Greater Manchester that will, it is hoped, increase journeys by foot or bike by 2.5 million a day, and save the NHS £6.73 billion by improving public health.

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Long a city that embraced cars, Paris is seeing a new kind of road rage: Bike-lane traffic jams
1 year, 6 months ago

Long a city that embraced cars, Paris is seeing a new kind of road rage: Bike-lane traffic jams

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A nearly decade-long drive by Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo …

Cycling is down nearly a quarter since coronavirus peak
1 year, 10 months ago

Cycling is down nearly a quarter since coronavirus peak

The Independent  

Cycling on main roads in England has fallen by nearly a quarter from the peak recorded during coronavirus restrictions, Department for Transport figures show. Excellent strategies, guidance and design standards have never been supported with the investment the Government knows is needed to get anywhere close to delivering those targets Duncan Dollimore, Cycling UK The amount of cycling on main …

How Milan is reinventing itself as a cycle city
3 years, 9 months ago

How Milan is reinventing itself as a cycle city

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We used the crisis to accelerate and foster a change that was already planned but needed to be pushed.” …

How bike-friendly ‘slow streets' are changing cities
4 years, 4 months ago

How bike-friendly ‘slow streets' are changing cities

BBC  

How bike-friendly ‘slow streets' are changing cities Alamy Bogota spawned a now-international movement called Ciclovía, in which 1.5 million people pedal across 128km of car-free streets each Sunday morning Covid-19 caused rapid shifts in travel infrastructure to make streets friendlier to bikers and pedestrians. Alamy Bogotá is infamous for having the world's worst traffic, but its cycling infrastructure is considered …

Corona-cycleways: Paris Mayor Wants Residents to 'Forget' What It's Like to Cross City in Cars
4 years, 5 months ago

Corona-cycleways: Paris Mayor Wants Residents to 'Forget' What It's Like to Cross City in Cars

News 18  

Paris’s new Mayor is on bicycling high. Freshly re-elected Anne Hidalgo in a recent interview maintained that she will be keeping her manifesto promise to make residents of the French capital cycle more by increasing the number of lockdown cycleways. In May, Hidalgo, who has campaigned against car use in the capital since entering City Hall in 2014, added a …

Will Covid-19 make urban cycling more inclusive?
4 years, 8 months ago

Will Covid-19 make urban cycling more inclusive?

BBC  

Will Covid-19 make urban cycling more inclusive? “The dominant approach has been a gentrification model of associating bicycle development with urban renewal projects,” says Adonia Lugo, a cultural anthropologist who researches urban cycling at Antioch University in Los Angeles. Putting the onus on individual cyclists to make themselves safe by outfitting themselves with accessories shifts responsibility away from city authorities …

The Surprising Reasons A Biking Boom Is Great For Cities
4 years, 10 months ago

The Surprising Reasons A Biking Boom Is Great For Cities

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Bikes are booming ― so much so that there’s currently a bicycle shortage in the U.S. as block-long lines stretch outside bike stores. As these new cyclists take to the streets, many are finding a world very different from pre-pandemic times, with pop-up bike lanes, expanded pedestrian spaces and roads closed to vehicles. And bike lanes make …

Coronavirus: Swap cars for e-bikes to reopen UK, researchers say
4 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus: Swap cars for e-bikes to reopen UK, researchers say

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The new study, produced by researchers at the University of Leeds‘ Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions, found …

Covid-19: Car-free streets, cycle paths new London reality
4 years, 10 months ago

Covid-19: Car-free streets, cycle paths new London reality

Hindustan Times  

London mayor Sadiq Khan on Friday announced plans to transform parts of central London into one of the largest car-free zones in any capital city in the world, discouraging use of public transport and promoting cycling and walking. London mayor Sadiq Khan on Friday announced plans to transform parts of central London One of the worst affected areas in the …

London traffic lanes could be repurposed to cope with surge in walking and cycling
4 years, 10 months ago

London traffic lanes could be repurposed to cope with surge in walking and cycling

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy London’s parking spaces and traffic lanes could be repurposed to …

Cycle power: Bikes emerge as a post-lockdown commuter option
4 years, 10 months ago

Cycle power: Bikes emerge as a post-lockdown commuter option

Associated Press  

MADRID — Halfway through his 30-minute bike ride to work, police ordered Juan Pasamar to dismount, accusing him of breaking Spain’s coronavirus lockdown rules by exercising in public. The transition to more bike-friendly urban environments “is necessary if we want our cities to work,” said Morton Kabell, who co-chairs the European Cyclists’ Federation. “If we wait for proper infrastructure for …

How cities are clamping down on cars
4 years, 11 months ago

How cities are clamping down on cars

BBC  

How cities are clamping down on cars Getty Images Lockdown is ushering in the demise of the fossil-fuel-powered car Cities around the world are seeing dwindling numbers of fossil-fuel powered cars on their streets during lockdown, and many are planning to keep it that way. “Cities that seize this moment to reallocate space on their streets to make it easier …

Green revolution? UK cities have only ‘weeks’ to design life after lockdown, warns Chris Boardman
4 years, 11 months ago

Green revolution? UK cities have only ‘weeks’ to design life after lockdown, warns Chris Boardman

The Independent  

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The Coronavirus Shows It's Time To Remake The American City
4 years, 11 months ago

The Coronavirus Shows It's Time To Remake The American City

Huff Post  

Like much of California, the city of Oakland has been under a shelter-in-place order since March, leaving its population of around 430,000 few options for getting out of the house other than to go for a walk. “It’s a scary time, but it’s also a real opportunity,” said Janette Sadik-Khan, chair of the National Association of City Transportation Officials, which …

Coronavirus: Congested Milan to turn roads into cycle lanes after drop in air pollution due to lockdown
4 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus: Congested Milan to turn roads into cycle lanes after drop in air pollution due to lockdown

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Motor traffic congestion has dropped by 30-75 per cent …

Coronavirus has caused a bicycling boom in New York City
5 years ago

Coronavirus has caused a bicycling boom in New York City

Salon  

If there's a silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic — and let's be real: we could all really use a win right now — it's that there's probably never been a better time to ride a bike in the Big Apple. At first, it was uncertain whether New Yorkers who aren't used to cycling on the city's inconsistent network of …

US Cities Should Follow Paris' $160M Plan to Boost Cycling
9 years, 11 months ago

US Cities Should Follow Paris' $160M Plan to Boost Cycling

Wired  

Thibault Camus/AP Paris has a pollution problem. Becoming the cycling capital of the world may be out of reach---cities like Amsterdam and Copenhagen are well ahead of Paris when it comes to share of trips made by bike---but the plan deserves credit for both for its scale and its scope. Paris has one of the world's largest bike share systems, …

Pushing for pedal power
12 years, 3 months ago

Pushing for pedal power

The Hindu  

Many cities are cycling towards a better future. It was widely used for commuting, and until about 1994, its share in total daily trips made in cities was as high as 30 per cent. Instead of finding ways of capitalising on this large user base, transport policies over the years overlooked bicycles and promoted private motorised transport. Apart from laying …

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