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 […]

Torontoist: Insane in the Bike Lane
It’s hardly a newsflash to report that Toronto’s bike lanes consistently need a lot of work. Putting aside the City’s abysmal recent history implementing the official Bike Plan and ignoring the imbecilic comments from Councillors Ford and Ootes, bicycle lanes are often more dangerous than they should be, and much […]

Reuters UK: Bike training aims to get kids pedalling to school
Children across England will learn how to ride a bike safely on roads in a government-backed training scheme launched on Monday. The Bikeability programme has been piloted with 3,000 children across the country since last September.
It is an update of the old Cycling Proficiency […]

Tallahassee Democrat: Cyclists start 1,200-mile trek
For the next 12 days, eight cyclists will trek across the state to raise awareness for seat-belt use and the importance of using designated drivers to fight drunk driving. The cyclists — including founder and coordinator Jim Russell, assistant chief of the Florida State University Police Department, […]

In the news: New cycling test ‘for 21st century’
A new government-backed scheme to teach British schoolchildren how to stay safe when cycling on the road has been launched today. The Bikeability scheme, using £10 million worth of funds, will replace the old cycling proficiency test and be offered to England’s ten-year-old schoolchildren. The […]

Adelaide Now: Plea to drivers as cyclist toll soars
South Australia has already recorded its average annual number of cyclist deaths after a fourth death yesterday, prompting a warning for drivers to show extra vigilance. (Want to make a comment on this story? Then scroll down and use the comments box below.) A 49-year-old […]

Competitor Magazine: Friendly Skies for Cyclists? Think Again
While some of the airlines are talking green, they are simultaneous working to undermine green choices by their customers. One group footing exorbitant fees are cyclists, who are being charged what some consider outrageous sums for flying with their bikes. In the dark of winter, the airlines have […]

The Age: A chain reaction to ever-diminishing cycles
Three decades ago most children rode bikes to school or walked — now only 5 per cent do, according to research compiled by Bicycle Victoria.The study of statistics from Western Australia, Queensland and Victoria over eight years to 2006 comes ahead of Wednesday’s inaugural Ride To School Day, […]

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Make Seattle a world-class biking city
I belong to a biking family. My husband biked to work for two-thirds of his career, and both my sons bike to work, one here in Seattle and the other in Denmark. I ride an exercise bike but haven’t biked a lot on the streets of Seattle. (Rain! […]

Press Release: Cycling Advocates Network Cyclists Urged to Light Up
With daylight saving heralding changes in riding conditions, cyclists are being urged to light up and brighten up. Cycling Advocates’ Network (CAN) spokesman Stephen McKernon says, “Cyclists should light up for morning, evening, and bad weather riding. Most of the 12 cycling fatalities […]

The Age: Family mourn loss of champion
Damien McDonald’s mother Amelia Edwards and his wife Bree and her brother River speak to the media. The Coroner is yet to formally identify the Olympic cyclist killed in the Burnley Tunnel crash, his grieving wife said today. Damian McDonald’s wife Bree, the mother of the champion cyclist’s […]