Here’s the news from around the world that caught my eye in the last week:
– A look at the Slow Bike Movement, which means not just riding slowly, but purchasing a slow bicycle.
– No slow bicycling here: A profile of a new bike courier company in bike-unfriendly Indianapolis.
– A new report shows a clear relationship between transportation and housing costs.
– In bike share news this week: A look at what makes Dublin’s system successful. Researchers in Barcelona quantify lives saved due to reduced emissions. And Streetfilms sings the praises of D.C.’s newly expanded system.
– In Monufiya, Egypt, a network of bike lanes and sidewalks is planned for all of the city’s main streets as a way to reduce car traffic.
– Edmonton, Alberta is planning to spend $100 million on bike infrastructure in the next ten years, including a million this year.
– Instead of banning bicycles on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, they’ve put down lane markings to separate biking and walking.
– In New Haven, a bicycle repair shop has opened that is self contained in a sidewalk cart.
– In Mississippi, a woman runs into someone bicycling on the side of the road, stops, runs over her again — and is charged with a misdemeanor.
– An update on the trial of the man in San Francisco who is being charged with running down four people on bikes a few blocks apart last year.
– In case you haven’t yet seen it: The story of the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania defending his city’s bike lanes with a tank and a populist speech.
– This has nothing to do with bikes, but we’d be doing you a disservice not to share that at a Netherlands train station in a disadvantaged neighborhood one of your options for arriving quickly at the underground platform is to slide down a slide, like at the playground.
Video of the Week: A news report on bicycling in Jakarta, Indonesia shows a weekly ciclovia, a misplaced bike lane, and a cycling organization 50,000 riders strong…
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