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People are dusting their bikes off and using them to get to work, to the shops, to school.

The humble bicycle is not only the best way to travel short distances (let’s say up to 2 or 3 miles to start with), it’s also a great way to burn calories, firm up your legs and bottom, and stave off heart disease.

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Something for town planners and council workers to consider: can you think of any other policy that has a positive impact across all the following problem areas…?

  • obesity and heart disease,
  • climate change,
  • air quality and noise pollution,
  • mental well-being,
  • the effect of the traffic threat on the mobility of children and the elderly,
  • community cohesion,
  • rising petrol prices,
  • traffic congestion (and the ensuing stress and lost productivity),
  • car addiction and aggressive driving,
  • social inequalities,
  • property values and desirability/livability of the area,
  • support for local business…

Promoting the use of bicycles for getting around town costs relatively little and contributes to a wide spectrum of positive impacts.

Already a form of everyday transport in many progressive areas of Northern Europe, bicycles are rapidly gaining popularity around the globe as people look for solutions to the above problems.

6 responses

30 07 2009
World Carfree Network

Hello

Did you already have a look at the blog of the World Carfree Network ( http://worldcarfree.wordpress.com ). It is a new space to share information and discuss issues relevant to eliminating car dependency, exploring alternatives and to celebrate carfree living. We hope to provide a rich and diverse content and that you will enjoy following it.

Would you like to consider a link exchange between your blog and our to facilitate the exchange of information and the navigation of people supporting the carfree movement from one blog to another. (We may have already add your link)

We also invite you to blog with us if you are interested – please send your letters, articles, news, pictures and videos to blog@worldcarfree.net

Greetings from Prague! All the best,

Marko

30 03 2010
teretere

Hi,

Any idea where I can get a super lightweight Dahon or Bromptom in Seoul in-person (i.e. at a shop or used from another person) in Seoul?

Thanks!

3 04 2010
sexify

Sanbada Sports is the local Brompton dealer.

http://www.sanbadasports.com/

Address is:
서울특별시 강남구 삼성동 157-15 구암빌딩 6층
6th floor, Gu-Am Building, 157-15 Samseong-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul

I’ve not been there, so I’d suggest you ask a taxi driver in the Samseong area.

3 05 2010
Stan Engelbrecht

Hi Sexify. I’m currently working on a project that is very closely related to everything your blog stands for. It’s called ‘Bicycle Portraits – everyday South Africans and their bicycles. A photographic book in the making’. Please our Kickstarter page at http://kck.st/c09uOF or our website at http://www.bicycleportraits.co.za

Thanks, Stan.

1 12 2010
Edward Sim

Hi there,

Love and been following your site. Could you add my blog into
your ‘blogroll’ section? In exchange, i will add you in my blog too. The following is my blog url:

http://www.lovepeacecycle.co.cc

I am a cyclist and always love to get on my bike, i have a passion to promote bike use, urban cycling and
really really hope to convince the authorities to build bike lanes because there is none in Malaysia.
Hope to hear from you soon…

20 04 2011
jaime

hi

i´m jaime, from spanish brand peSeta
i couldn´t find an email contact, i hope you don´t mind posting this here…

i just wanted to share with you this short film we´ve made about our latest collaboration:
a series of bike caps made by a bicycle attached to a sewing machine for the New Museum of NYC shop…
we´re really excited about it and thought you might like it as well…

http://www.vimeo.com/22382844

thank you very much and congratulations for your wonderful blog

jaime
http://www.peseta.org
noviciado 9 · 28015 madrid españa

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