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23.12.2009
England: Leisure cycling on the rise in England
New figures suggest there has been a significant rise in the number of adults in England who regularly cycle.
12.12.2009
Denmark: Winner of Copenhagen's Bike Share Competition Awarded
The Winner Concepts of the international competition "New Bike Share System for Copenhagen" had been awarded at 10.12.2009
10.12.2009
The Lancet: Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions
Promotion of walking and cycling help to safe the life of 6,800 inhabitants in London - particularly through reduction of cardiovascular diseases
16.11.2009
US: New Yorkers choosing bicycle lane over car lane - more than ever
The number of people choosing to cycle to and from work jumped 26 percent from last year, says a City transportation study released Monday.
09.11.2009
Japan: Largest automated bicycle parking in the world
Kasai railway station in Tokyo provides parking lots for 6480 bicycles. Some smaller high-technology parking facilities, providing parking lots for some 1000 bicycles, all over Japan
14.10.2009
Italy: TRENTO BY BIKE - A Bike Mobility Game
The Trento by Bike game is part of an awareness raising project aimed to encourage students to bicycle to school in Trento. The Trento Mobility Service collaborates on the game with a consultant as part of a private car and traffic reduction scheme. Delivered 2008, ongoing in 2009.
10.10.2009
UK: Twelve New Cycle Superhighways in London
Transport for London gives information about the new Cycle Superhighways, which aim to help quadrupling of London's cycle use.
06.10.2009
"SRAM Cycling Fund" awards "European Twowheel Retailers Association" (ETRA) 30,000 Euro
The money is donated for the engagement of ETRA within the Prestro-Project and shall promote cycling at EU-level
28.09.2009
UK: Rail passengers encouraged to get on their bike
Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis today launched a major £14m package to transform facilities for cyclists at rail stations and encourage healthier, greener travel.
25.07.2009
The New EU-Project "PRESTO" Promotes Cycling in European Cities
PRESTO – "Promoting Cycling for Everyone as a Daily Transport Mode" is a project of the EU's Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE) Programme. It aims to offer a set of tools for technicians to create cycle friendly urban environments, to implement sound cycling plans and to start up targeted promotion campaigns. Besides the local activities in the five PRESTO cities are meant for the people, to encourage the use of bicycles also among elderly or those who live in very hilly areas.
18.06.2009
United Kingdom: More than a million trips per day on the National Cycle Network
Value for money National Cycle Network is cutting car traffic and getting more people active
25.05.2009
France: Public Cycle Hire Vélib in Paris – 50 Million Rides in Two Years
Customer survey by the municipality of Paris shows almost complete satisfaction. 46 percent of Vélib users drive more seldom with their cars.
15.05.2009
Europe: Mayors sign "Charter of Brussels" – triplication of bicycling modal share in Europe by 2020
Iniciated by the ECF 27 cities call upon the European institiuions to contribute the triplication of bicycling modal share in Europ from 5% to at least 15% in 2020
12.05.2009
Europe: "Re-Cycling Cities" - more than 800 participants at Velocity Conference 2009 in Brussels
Manfred Neun, the President of the European Cyclists' Federation (ECF) and European Commission Vice-president Antonio Tajani opened the 15. Velocity Conference
12.05.2009
Denmark: "Danish Cycling Embassy" opened – a new kind of embassy pools knowledge about bicycling
Danmark gets a new and exceptional embassy. The "Cycling Embassy of Denmark" pools information from private enterprises, public authorities and from non-profit-organisations.
12.05.2009
The European Commission promotes cycling
Summary: What is the European Commission doing to foster the mobility of its staff? What developments have there been in the policy in the last few years?
07.05.2009
The data show that the places with the highest cycle use – York, Cambridgeshire and Hull – are also the safest places to cycle.
06.05.2009
European Cyclists' Federation appreciates the request by the European Parlament to the European Commission and the member states to consider the EuroVelo-Network and Iron Curtain Trail as an opportunity for promoting European trans-border cycling infrastructure networks
28.04.2009
Great Britain: 400 cycle docking stations in central London
London Cycle Hire scheme launches in May 2010 and is expected to generate an additional 40,000 cycle journeys every day in central London. Transport for London (TfL) began submitting planning applications situated approximately every 300 metres.
20.04.2009
Ireland: National Cycle Policy shall quintuple cycling
Irish minister of transport Noel Dempsey launches Ireland's First National Cycle Policy Framework with 109 measures for promote cycling. By 2020 160,000 people shall use their bike on their way to work.
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