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Study Shows There Is Safety in Numbers for Cyclists

By Damien Newton | | 9 Comments
It may seem paradoxical to some, but researchers at the University of South Whales in Australia shows that the more people that bicycle on the roads, the safer cyclists are.  The study included research from cyclists in Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, 14 European countries and 68 Californian cities.  Put briefly, the study concludes that the […]

San Francisco Debuts Car-Free “Sunday Streets”

By Damien Newton | | No Comments
San Francisco held its inaugural car-free "Sunday Streets" event last weekend. New York Streetsblogger Jen Petersen was there and files this report. Whatever the weather, San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf doesn’t suffer from a shortage of dollar-shelling, strolling tourists on weekends, and so clearing street space for more people-powered mobility on a sunny morning had instant […]

Wiki Wednesday: Quartier Vauban, Freiburg, Germany

By Brad Aaron | | No Comments
This week’s StreetsWiki feature takes us to the Quartier Vauban in Freiburg, Germany. With an area of 84 acres, the Quartier Vauban is a neighborhood of 5,000 people, designed and built as a sustainable community between 1993 and 2006. Contributor Meg Saggese writes that the Vauban "represents the state of the art in environmental protection […]

Wiki Wednesday: Beijing

By Ben Fried | | 4 Comments
All the overhead shots of the Bird’s Nest and the Water Cube on NBC’s Olympic coverage don’t leave much room for views of Beijing’s streets. But that’s where much of the commotion about smog, absentee athletes and particle masks originates. While the city has taken the unwieldy step of rationing license plates to clear the […]

Bike-Share Debuts in Washington D.C.

By Ben Fried | | 4 Comments
Public bike-share in the U.S. hit a milestone yesterday when SmartBike DC, the first program of its kind in an American city, launched in full. Coverage in the Washington Post was heavy on the implications for D.C.’s image: Today the city will join the ranks of Paris and Barcelona with the launch of the first […]
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