The Carnival of Critical Mass: Urban Cycling Advocacy or Adversary?
By Nicholas Sanderson. Nicholas holds a BSc in Geography from the University of Edinburgh, where his interests fell on Urban Studies and Mobilities. Since graduating he has written for Think Africa...
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Ten Ideas from #citytalk for Boosting Cycling in Cities
By Rashiq Fataar at Future Cape Town The fourth edition of #citytalk entitled “Cycling and Cities” took place last week and was a great success, reaching close to 30,000 people. We were honoured to be...
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Kansas City Residents Build their Bike Share Scheme
One would not expect to find a bike share program in a car dominated metropolis like Kansas City, which has the highest ratio of highway lane miles to city population in the United States. A city that...
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An Interview with Rudy Gonzalez – Bike Courier in a ‘Bike-Depressed’ City
After covering Kansas City’s new bike share, we jumped at the chance to talk to Rudy Gonzalez from Cowtown Couriers - a bike courier service which offers an eco-friendly solution to deliveries through...
View ArticleSão Paulo Bicycle Library Brings Books to the City’s Homeless
By Davi Padilha Bonela at Global Voices If good ideas transcend boundaries, this one does it by bicycle. That is, by Bicicloteca [pt], a bicycle that carries a small library through the city of São...
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Unlocking Future Bicycle Networks with the World’s First Crowdsourced Bicycle...
By Rachel Smith – Principal Transport Planner with AECOM in Brisbane, founder of Cycling Super Highways, creator of We Heart Cycling, co-founder of Lazy Sunday Cycle, art+place curator, part of the BMW...
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Cyclopath: the Web and Mobile App for Rating and Creating Bikeable Cities
It can be difficult being a cyclist in a country paved for automobiles. After all, most roads in the US were built for use by cars and trucks and it is a rare sight to see a designated bike lane in a...
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New York City Tests Local Sentiment by Reconsidering Scrapped Bike Lane Plan
A stalled idea of putting a protected bike lane on a stretch of a Manhattan avenue is coming up for air, offering a test of public sentiment about New York City’s often-contentious bike lane boom. On...
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Exploring Berlin on the Smart Electric Bike
Berlin is a fantastic city where good design is ubiquitous and bicycle infrastructure is both plentiful and of a standard that many cities would be envious of. I recently spent a couple of days in...
View ArticleMaking it More Difficult to Steal Bikes
Cycling has many advantages, but bike theft remains a sadly common drawback. Over 500,000 bikes were stole in in the UK last year (that’s one every minute, factoid fans), and less than 5% of those were...
View ArticleA New Movement for The New City: Reallocating Space Away from the Car
Cities need to redefine their relationship with the car – shaping cars and driver behaviour to suit cities, not cities to suit cars. This doesn’t mean banning cars outright, but rather reminding people...
View ArticleCycling Challenges and Opportunities in Timisoara
Almost overnight in 2008, 10 km of cycle paths appeared freshly painted on the sidewalks in Timisoara. This was pretty confusing: neither pedestrians nor cyclists respected the limits of the paint at...
View ArticleLondon’s Rolling Community and Sustainable Transport Systems
London commuter cycling has found a way to fit in to the automobile society that's developed over the past 70 years. However, as more people take up cycling in the capital, more people are beginning to...
View ArticleGreening Cities with Better Bike Lanes
The Green Lane Project has brought together six U.S. cities to build more protected bike trails. Martha Roskowski, Director of the project, put some time aside to talk to This Big City.
View ArticleTricycle House: The Latest in Ultra-Flexible Accommodation
The bijou tricycle house is made of translucent plastic with sides and arched roof folded in the style of an accordion. Using origami-like techniques, the interior can be turned into a kitchen, dining...
View ArticleMejor en Bici: Life is Better on Two Wheels
Since 2009, Mejor en bici (Better on bike) has promoted the use of bicycles in Bogotá as a solution for chaotic urban mobility issues and also to develop better lifestyles amongst citizens.
View ArticleThe Good and Bad of London’s Controversial New Bike Lane
Work started on some new bike lanes in east London a few months back. While the bike lanes are very short, is it indicative of a positive trend in cycling infrastructure in the capital? We take a look.
View ArticleVietnam Tackles Two-Wheeled Congestion
The motorbike is king in Vietnam. In a bid to tackle the congestion and pollution caused by these bikes, the Vietnamese Government is introducing a range of measures to make the country’s transport...
View ArticleCycling Osaka: Exploring Japan’s Second City by Bike
Osaka in Japan is in many ways the perfect cycle destination: it's flat, well-signposted and chock full of interesting destinations to whizz around at high-speed. It's also relatively cycle-friendly....
View ArticleCuritiba’s 12-Point Plan for Creating a Cycle-Friendly City
The city of Curitiba announced the details of Plan Cicloviário on September 6th. The big news, however, is not the $90 million investment to implement hundreds of kilometres of new bike roads in the...
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