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Paris Embraces Plan to Become City of Bikes

By Jason Varone | | 4 Comments
The Velo’v public bicycle system in Lyon, France. By the end of 2007 the city of Paris will have 1,450 bike stations offering 20,000 bicycles. The Washington Post reports: On July 15, the day after Bastille Day, Parisians will wake up to discover thousands of low-cost rental bikes at hundreds of high-tech bicycle stations scattered […]

Google Staff Get On Their Bikes

By Jason Varone | | 7 Comments
The Guardian reports: Google is improving its green credentials by offering all of its employees a free bike to ride to work. The bikes, manufactured by Raleigh Europe, will be offered to around 2,000 permanent employees of the search engine giant in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. All of the bikes – plus free […]

Congestion Pricing: Does New York Have the Will?

By Sarah Goodyear | | 18 Comments
Brad Aaron reports: Political will, holistic planning, centralized management. That’s what Malcolm Murray-Clark says it takes to implement an effective congestion pricing plan. He should know. The Director of Congestion Charging at Transport for London (TfL) oversees a program that is as ambitious as it is successful — a program that went from idea to […]

Shanghai Is Back on the Bicycle Bandwagon

By Jason Varone | | 3 Comments
The Shanghai Daily reports: SHANGHAI is making efforts to prove that the title of "kingdom of bicycles" still fits the world’s most populous country, even in the car age. The city is renovating a 300-kilometer network of "cycling arteries," covering at least 60 percent of local roads open to cyclists, and plans to separate bicycles […]
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