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Brazil: Aracaju's Bicycle Culture
)Everyday, 24 million Brazilians use their bicycles. 53% use it as a way of transport. It's not only football and samba. It's much more.There are lots of great examples of bicycle friendliness in the...
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Dating Car-Free People
One of our readers sent us this graphic, grabbed from the OneCupid.com dating website. Users fill out a long line of questionaires in order to be matched with likeminded individuals. It's an American...
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AnsaldoBreda (Part One)
Snow and Ice build-up damage to the underside of trains recently delivered by AnsaldoBreda for "Fyra" service between Amsterdam and Brussels. (Source: Dutch Railways)(NB: This post contains some links...
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How to Spend 27 Billion Kroner
The Robert Moses Fan Club that in Denmark is pushing ahead with their idea of a harbour tunnel that will only serve to increase car traffic and congestion over large swathes of the Danish capital....
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Cycling to Copenhagen Airport
Standard cycle track in Copenhagen. Sign indicating that you turn left here for the airport.I will fully admit the irony of my epiphany. It's even a bit silly. The story has, however, a decent ending....
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Car Fasting is the New Fast Car
We've often wondered where the religious types were on intelligent transport. You'd think there would be enough inspiration in their books - Bible/Torah/Koran to support healthy, modern living. Yet...
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Motorists Dismount
Buttons that pedestrians or cyclists are forced to push in order for a computer program - programmed by a car-centric engineer - to grant them authorisation to cross a street in their city have to be...
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Essentials?
The city of Portland, Oregon in the USA is one of , if not the most progressive cities in North America when it comes to building bicycle infrastructure. While it pales in comparison to Copenhagen,...
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Building the Bicycle Snake
UPDATE: A year back we blogged about the Bicycle Snake - Cykelslangen - being built to both help connect the popular Vesterbro and Islands Brygge neighbourhoods of Copenhagen, and to create a simpler...
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Nørrebrogade - a Car-Free(ish) Success
The tale of Nørrebrogade keeps getting better. This is the street that the former traffic Mayor, Klaus Bondam, tackled in order to cut the number of cars and increase the liveability for the residents....
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Paint Is Not Enough
♫♪Yes, there used to be a painted bike lane right here. ♫ (with apologies to Joe Raposo)Forty Days and Forty Nights.This time period appears again and again in the scriptures of various religions, but...
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Crisis Averted. I'm a Bicycle girl.
Most of us international Copenhagenizers end up spending a chunk of our evenings learning to pronounce Danish words and names like "Oehlenschlagersgade" and "rødspættefiletter." Not so much for getting...
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Dublin is Planning for the Future
We've got a thing for Dublin at Copenhagenize Design Co.. Not least because we're involved - together with local partners - in three bicycle infrastructure projects in the city. Now we're loving them...
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Culture of Fear Meets Science on the Pistes
We got sent a link to a page from the Danish Consumer Council (Forbrugerrådet)about ski helmets. It was interesting reading because of a confusing mix of Culture of Fear (for profit) and the science of...
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Win Win Winnipeg
We were in Winnipeg, Canada late last year, for The Kickstand Sessions. One evening before the Sessions began, we walked from our hotel to a restaurant (saw two other pedestrians!) along Pembina...
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Volvo have announced a cyclist and pedestrian detection system in their cars. When a cyclist heading in the same direction swerves in front of the car, the system brings the car to a full stop.A step...
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Closing Streets to Cars - for Good
The neverending story of car dependency:(c) Todd Litman, 2013. "Smart Congestion Relief - Comprehensive Analysis of Traffic Congestion Costs and Congestion Reduction Benefits". Victoria Transport...
View ArticleBicycle Malmö 2012
Bicycle Malmö 2012 from Martin Lang on Vimeo.A lovely little film about our neighbours in Malmö, across the bridge from Copenhagen.Copenhagenize the planet. And have a lovely day.
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The Arrogance of Space
We have a tendency to give cities human character traits when we describe them. It's a friendly city. A dynamic city. A boring city. Perhaps then a city can be arrogant. Arrogant, for example, with...
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