ABC Online: Cycling convert says riding saves him time
6 years ago Murray Gomm threw away his car keys and started riding to work. “I just got quite guilty,” he says. “We had two cars and we’d go separately and it just seemed to be all wrong.” He says becoming a commuting cyclist was “a fantastic [...]

Courier-Mail: Cars lose the race to work
The Inner City Bypass is quickly turning into the inner-city car park after traffic grew by almost 25 per cent in the past year, according to a survey by Rivercity Motorway, builders of Brisbane’s North South Bypass Tunnel. The number of morning traffic delays jumped by 25 per [...]

Atlantic.com: Bloom Energy bike commuters
I’m an avid, one might even say evangelical, bike commuter. It’s no slower, in DC, than driving a car, and it’s considerably cheaper and healthier. It’s also more flexible – no more fractional hours wasted looking for parking when every lamppost and street sign offers a spot. And it’s a whole [...]

Bike Radar: Hire bikes rescue stranded Parisians
Paris’ cycle hire scheme Velib has come to the rescue of commuters stranded by a French public transport strike. The city’s rental scheme had already been hailed a massive success, with more than five million rides since its launch in mid-July. Yesterday the capital’s hire bikes were [...]