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Wednesday, 06 May 2015

The Guardian

• What are the world's most cycle-friendly cities?From safe networks of cycle paths to innovative policy, share your examples and experiences of progressive cycling cities with GuardianWitnessAs cities increasingly seek to reduce car use and encourage more sustainable forms of transport, so cycling will surely play an ever-more important role in urban life.Following a swath of activism in the 1970s, Dutch cities began to introduce measures for safer cycling. Now Amsterdam, Utrecht and Groningen – not to mention cities such as Copenhagen, Münster and Seville – have become pioneers for a pro-cycling urban culture with extensive network...
• How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the worldIn the 1960s, Dutch cities were increasingly in thrall to motorists, with the car seen as the transport of the future. It took the intolerable toll of child traffic deaths – and fierce activism – to turn Amsterdam into the cycling nirvana of todayAnyone who has ever tried to make their way through the centre of Amsterdam in a car knows it: the city is owned by cyclists. They hurry in swarms through the streets, unbothered by traffic rules, taking precedence whenever they want, rendering motorists powerless by their sheer numbers.Cyclists rule in Amsterdam and great pains have been taken to acc...

London Evening Standard

• World's biggest 'bike bus' with 900 cyclists heads for east London The world's biggest "bike bus" is set to descend on east London next month, with 900 cyclists taking to the streets in an attempt to make their name in the record books.