AME Info: Syria set to host ‘Women for Peace’ cycle ride with support from Her Excellency Mrs Asmaa Al-Assad
The city of Aleppo in Syria is set to host the start of a 12-day women’s cycle ride for peace over the Easter weekend (April 7th-8th), with the full support of Her Excellency Mrs Asmaa Al-Assad, Syria’s [...]

MHW Magazine: Ford joins London Campaign to reduce cyclists injuries
Transport for London (TfL) has announced two new campaigns to help reduce the risks cyclists face from heavy goods vehicles. More than half of all cyclists killed on London’s roads are involved in collisions with these vehicles.
Ford’s lorry drivers, who travel millions of miles in the [...]

New York Sun: Shared Bicycles May Be Next on Streets of New York
Community organizers and transit advocates are working together to bring a bicycle-share program to Manhattan, Queens, and Governors Island. The program, under which members could pick up bikes at street kiosks, reportedly has reduced traffic and pollution in cities such as Lyon, France, [...]

NY Metro: City drops suit against bike group
The city quietly dropped a lawsuit against bike advocacy group Time’s Up! last week, after two years of litigation. The lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court on March 22, 2005, against the nonprofit and four of its volunteers, claimed that cyclists riding in a group, such as [...]

Belfast Telegraph: James Daley: The Cycling Column – Pedals ready for a summer bout of cycle fever
There are still a few places left on this year’s London to Brighton bike ride, which takes place on Sunday 17 June. If you’ve never taken part before, it’s well worth thinking about signing up. The London to [...]

Refer to the WoJ archives for articles relating to the Hell Ride/James Gould incident.
The Age: Cyclists rode at ‘excessive speeds’
A witness to a fatal collision between a cyclist and a pedestrian has told of the “sickening noise” of the man’s head hitting the road. Pedestrian James Gould, 77, died in August last year after [...]

York Press: Life on the pavement
With the level of traffic on the roads today, should children really be banned from cycling on the pavement? The relationship between cyclists and motorists has never been rosy, but drag pedestrians into the argument and the sparks really fly. Yesterday, The Press reported how police told sisters Abigail and [...]

Herald Sun: Hell Ride cyclists told to clean up act
A Coroner has demanded cyclists on Melbourne’s now notorious Hell Ride clean up their act after a pedestrian was fatally struck as riders ran a red light. In an unusual move, Victorian state coroner Graeme Johnstone interrupted testimony at an inquest into the tragedy to blast [...]

Star-Gazette Editorial: Sharing the road
Death on Ashland highway a reminder that those on foot, bikes at the mercy of drivers. What happened along that stretch has yet to come fully to light. The 17-year-old was found dead in a ditch the next day. He had been hit by a car police say was driven by [...]

St. Petersburg Times: Green lane at First Avenue N reminds motorists of cyclists
Traffic managers react to anecdotes about close calls at the busy 34th Street intersection and reports of cyclists being cut off. Show ‘em the green. That’s what traffic managers decided to do to a bicycle lane at one busy city [...]