Edie.net: Mayor pushes grab-and-go cycle plan
Mayor Ken Livingstone has asked transport officials to draw up plans for a grab-and-go bicycle hire scheme to boost cycling in London. He wants Transport for London (TfL) to examine the feasibility of bicycle hire scheme for the capital after being impressed by the success of the Paris Velib or […]

MLive.com: Bike advocates point out city’s weaknesses
For years, Jackson bicycle advocates have pushed to make the community more bike-accessible. They’ve fought to put bike lanes on public streets, started the annual Smart Commute and raised money to start construction on the Falling Water Trail. Friday, they took their cause […]

Biking Bis: Bike paths are just pork? US transportation secretary thinks so
With the nation’s cities choked by more and more cars, it’s interesting to hear from US Transportation Secretary Mary Peters that she considers bike paths just so much pork barrel. Peters says that earmarked funds going to pay for — among other things — […]

The Age: Bike sheds will help in war on weight, state told
Bike sheds should be mandatory for every new and refurbished school in Victoria, a cycling advocate says. Bicycle Victoria chief executive Harry Barber said it was frustrating that bike sheds were not standard. “Even when millions of dollars are spent building a […]

The Guardian: ‘The city’s gone cycling mad‘
It has been a month since Paris introduced its city-wide bike rental scheme. So how is it going? Local resident Angelique Chrisafis finds out. No doubt the Tour de France helped, but when my rather substantial friend Jean, who has never knowingly walked more than 100m without the promise […]

Border Mail: Plan to lift parking for cyclists
Albury citizens will be encouraged to use their bicycles more, with the council asked to spend $10,000 on new racks. Safety officer Kate Kohne told councillors this week the city needed many more secure bicycle parking facilities. The strategy and infrastructure committee will recommend the full council back […]

Winchester Star: Plan ideas receive mixed signals - Group accepts revised report, but money will slow implementation
The Winchester-Frederick County Metropolitan Planning Organization accepted a revised bicycle and pedestrian plan on Wednesday, but members indicated that public funds don’t exist to implement any of the $80,000 study’s recommendations.
“None of the jurisdictions are currently planning to use […]

Port to Point: El Al announced it will carry bicycles on board free of charge
El Al says that that the decision was made due to the fact that over 1,000 Israelis use their own bicycles to take bicycle trips around the world each year El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. has announced that from […]

Quad Cities Online: New I-74 bridge will be a boon for bicycles
The proposed Interstate 74 bridge, as viewed from Leach Park in Bettendorf. Of to the side is a bike and pedestrian trail that will be part of the project. The first bridge across the Mississippi was built in 1855, but 152 years […]

Western Mail: Could Cardiff pedal after Paris?
What better way to ease traffic congestion in Cardiff than by introducing the new cycle scheme that is running so smoothly in France? Taxi drivers were adamant it would never work, but the introduction of 10,000 self-service bicycles in Paris appears to be a triumph in taming the […]

Seattle PI: New ’sharrows’ a friendly reminder to city’s motorists - Markings urge safe sharing of roads
You know those symbols showing up on the edges of streets around Seattle — the ones that look like a small bicycle wearing an oversized pointy hat? That’s a sharrow, and it’s not a license to drive in […]

Midlothian Advertiser: Cyclist’s A68 bypass plea turned down
A Dalkeith cyclist, who is campaigning for cyclepath provision at the new A68 bypass, has been told to get on his bike. Tony Galloway, who lives in Mitchell Street, Dalkeith, has written to Midlothian Council, the Scottish Executive and Transport Scotland in the hope of having a dedicated […]

Oxford Mail: £30k pledge for cyclist safety
More than £30,000 of developers’ money is to be spent on cycle safety measures in East Oxford. Oxfordshire County Council has about £32,000 to spend along Iffley Road. The chairman of Oxford cycling pressure group Cyclox, James Styring, who lives in East Oxford, said: “A lot of people complain […]

City of London: Press Release - Ken looks at radical new plans for cycling in London
The Mayor has announced that he has asked Transport for London to examine the feasibility of a bicycle hire scheme to promote cycling in London. Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, announced today that he has asked Transport for London to […]

Times Online: Parisians show their va va voom as city rolls out ‘freedom’ bike scheme
Taxi drivers and other critics said that it would never work, but three weeks after Paris was sprinkled with 10,000 self-service bicycles, the scheme is proving a triumph and a new pedalling army appears to be taming the city’s famously fierce […]

Evening Standard: Mayor wants London to copy Paris bike rentals
Ken Livingstone is considering a plan to offer thousands of bikes for rent for short trips across central London. The Mayor is keen to copy the Parisian idea of providing 10,000 self-service cycles that can be unlocked from racks and used for up to 30 […]

SkyNews: Tour encourages cycling
This year’s Tour de France may have been ruined by doping scandals, but a new city bike scheme has ensured two wheeled transport is increasingly popular on the streets of the French capital. The Velib programme was launched in Paris, coinciding with the end of the Tour and has been a runaway […]

Oregonian Live: Mia Birk: A key spoke in Portland’s bike culture
When Mia Birk ran Portland’s bicycle program a decade ago, she received a call from a helpful paving crew chief one Friday afternoon. The crew would repave Southeast Seventh Avenue that weekend and the crew chief noticed from a city map that it was […]

Tribune-Review: City puts wheels in motion to help cyclists
Computer science professor Frank Pfenning rides his bicycle year-round from his Squirrel Hill home to the Carnegie Mellon University campus, weather permitting. The 15-minute ride is mostly pleasant and relatively flat, he says, but some streets are dangerous. “This part of Oakland is terrible,” Pfenning said. Especially […]

ABC News: Bikes Invade Paris as Eco-Friendly Transportation
New Cycling Program Offers Cheap, Short-Term Rentals to Ease Congestion. Every summer the City of Lights is transformed into the city of bikes as the Tour de France descends upon the city’s famed Champs-Elysees. But this summer, scads of sweaty internationals are being spotted pedaling down Paris’ […]