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AltTransport readers have already done the math and know that mass transit systems that allow commuters to bring their bicycles on board add up to something more than the sum of their parts.
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New York Cycle Activist Skewers the State of New York’s Bike Lanes
- by Armin Rosen
Over the past three days, over a million YouTube viewers have had a first-hand look at the absurd state of New York City bike lanes.
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Bihar is the least literate state in India, with women’s literacy as low as 33 percent. Now the government says a bicycle-reward program is turning that number around.
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There are places where you would expect a bike share to take off—flat and relatively compact cities like Washington, DC and Montreal, places with somewhat sane traffic patterns and streets you wouldn’t be too terrified to bike in. Mexico City is not such a place.
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New York City’s ambitious rollout of more than 250 miles of new bike lanes since 2007 has been fraught with controversy, to put it mildly. Now a group of eleven graduate students from the Urban Affairs and Planning Program at Hunter College have produced a 145 page report called “Beyond the Backlash: Equity and Participation in Bicycle Planning” that suggests one way to cool tensions: Build more bike lines. And fast.
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National Bike Month is halfway over, and festivities are in full swing across the country. Cyclists are getting especially geared up this week, which is Bike to Work Week.
Read more »The Montreal Gazette is reporting a troubling development in the bike-sharing world. Bixi, a world-renowned designer and operator of bike-share systems, is facing some dire financial difficulties and may have to be bailed out by the government of Quebec in order to continue operating.
Read more »I’m convinced that this combination of trains + bikes is magical. Magic that disappears with the tether of an automobile.
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If you had problems falling asleep last night, we can relate: We were pretty excited for the beginning of Bike to Work Week, too.
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Boston will be the sixth American city to get a bike sharing program of its own.
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