Posts Tagged ‘ USA ’

Here in the North East, the Newcastle Cycling Campaign is gearing up to help the City Council get serious about a cycling network. The mantra you’ll most often hear is “Build it and they will come” when we speak about this sort of stuff. Experience from elsewhere in the world seems to validate this: Controversially though, I...
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I was reading the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin’s hilarious post today about the European Cyclists’ Federation fantastic report on the relative carbon emissions of different forms of urban transport. Part of BFW’s post included a graph of relative cyclist safety, % of trips by bike, and the % of cyclists who wear helmets. I used their...
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Politicians. Meh! I like to think that they’re all intelligent people, who despite the fact that I might not agree with them, they’re still well-intentioned, and trying to do their best to make a better world, or at least a better corner of the world for the people they represent. It’s probably my naïve sense of...
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