Source: Road.cc The first section of EuroVelo 1, La Vélodyssée – the Atlantic Coast Route in France, is now officially open and fully signposted – and comes complete with a new website for planning your trip. Starting at the Brittany port of Roscoff, EuroVelo 1 journeys for 1,200km along the French Atlantic coast through 4
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Source: Taipei Times Taiwan needs to lower its speed limits and allocate more space for cyclists if it hopes to achieve its aim of becoming a “cycling island,” a visiting expert said. “The first thing I would tackle is speed,” European Cyclists’ Federation director Kevin Mayne said on Wednesday at the Taipei International Cycle Show.
MoreSource: Streets Blog Two of the nation’s leading lefty commentators weighed in on transportation incentives last Friday, when both economist Paul Krugman at the New York Times and Matt Yglesias at Slate went on a congestion pricing kick. Krugman kicked things off by remarking that the surest way to reduce the costs imposed on society
MoreSource Bike Europe TAIPEI, Taiwan – European Cyclists Federation Development Director Kevin Mayne will deliver a keynote address to cycling’s leaders and future thinkers at the prestigious International Bicycle Trend Forum at the Taipei Cycle Show on 20th March. The International Bicycle Design Competition has been running since 1996 and has featured many of the
MoreSource: Bike Biz Bike industry should up its support for advocacy, says European Cyclists’ Federation, pointing to £1bn bike plan for London Yesterday’s stunning announcement that London plans to spend £913 million to revitalize urban cycling would not have happened without a strong advocacy movement, claims the Brussels-based European Cyclists’ Federation. The capital’s ambitious new cycling plan
More Source: New Europe Europeans have had a long love affair with the bicycle and today it’s even more popular as people choose to keep fit and healthy while opting for a low carbon alternative. It’s not just for work either, as cycling holidays are also increasing in popularity. As the long, cold winter begins to
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Source: Road.cc Minister for Transport Norman Baker will today announce how £62 million in funding for cycling will be spent, including £30 million that will be made available for cities in England to bid on to improve cycling infrastructure. The money is additional to a planned major investment in cycling Prime Minister David Cameron and
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Source: Road.cc As the Parliamentary Inquiry that aims to ‘Get Britain Cycling’ opens, many will ask why the UK can’t follow Denmark and the Netherlands in making the bicycle a leading choice of everyday transport for the masses. Those two countries are beacons of cycling due to policy decisions made in the 1970s and of
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Source: Bike Europe BRUSSELS, Belgium – “We have chosen the French city Nantes to host the Velo-city 2015 in part due to recent commitments to improve cycling”, said Bernhard Ensink, Secretary General of the European Cyclists’ Federation, organizer of the biggest cycling planning conference. The French city Nantes is selected to host the Velo-city
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Source: The Guardian Parliamentary cycling group hopes to build on 2012′s track success to get UK pedalling up European tables of bike use t was a mantra heard time and again amid the cosy fug of 2012′s British sporting success: with a Tour de France title, another clutch of Olympic golds and Bradley Wiggins our sports personality of
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