Cycling infrastructure Archives

New Research: Cycling Lanes Make Roads Safer for Everyone

July 11, 2019 at 7:13 am4 min reading

Urban cycling

The largest study of road safety to date published in the Journal of Transport & Health finds that more cycling infrastructure makes cities safer for everyone, not just cyclists. Researchers proposed that the old strategy of increasing the number of cyclists should be replaced by…

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The City of Xiamen Is Showing the Future of China with the Longest Elevated Bike Path

January 3, 2018 at 8:35 am

Urban cycling

We all know what the usual photographs of Chinese metropolises look like. Everybody is wearing surgical masks, desperately trying to protect themselves from the omnipresent smog, with a few metres of visibility at best. That is not the case of Xiamen, though. The tourist-friendly town…

Does Better Cycling Infrastructure Equal Improved Public Health?

November 28, 2017 at 1:57 pm

Health & Training

For some of us, cycling is a sport, a hobby or an eco-friendly mode of transportation, but cycling also has an important role to play in terms of public health. This includes obesity, which is now considered one of the biggest public health concerns in…

How Barcelona Is Turning into a Cycling City

October 23, 2017 at 8:51 am

Urban cycling

Welcome to Barcelona – where the architecture is inspiring, the climate is balmy and cycling is a way of life – or at least it is now.

Cycling Infrastructure Fails: Which One Is the Worst?

February 21, 2017 at 8:49 am

Urban cycling

Every cyclist is filled with a warm glow when their city decides to spend some money building cycle infrastructure. We’re easy-to-please taxpaying citizens. Let’s have a look at how that money’s spent.

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Can Better Infrastructure Bring More Women to Cycling?

January 26, 2017 at 6:12 pm

Road cycling

Urban cycling is a topic that will never run dry – partly because of its rising popularity among citizens and partly because cities itself are starting to make it their top program priority. However, if we leave out The Netherlands, women make only about a…

The Best of 2016 Cycling Infrastructure

December 16, 2016 at 10:38 am

Urban cycling

London’s Garden Bridge in danger? Sadiq Khan is finding out what a thankless role the Mayor of London can be, having halted the progress of a proposed “garden bridge” in September. By October, things were looking a little rosier for London’s cyclists when Khan agreed…

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Top 10 Pieces of Cycling Infrastructure: Which Country Does It Right?

November 16, 2016 at 1:53 pm

Urban cycling

Everybody seems to understand the benefits of cycling these days, but which government really does something to improve the infrastructure for us? We decided to focus on the positive today and share a list of great examples that are worth following. Check out the structures…