China Post: Taipei City launches ‘2007 Freedom Riverbank Biking‘
Officials from Taipei’s Department of Physical Education (TDPE) announced yesterday the venue for the “2007 Taipei Freedom Riverbank Biking” day, taking place on Sep. 8. This is the third time the event has been held, but this year the focus will be on promoting the use […]

News 8 Austin: Texas State co-op gets students back on bikes
There’s a new way to get around in San Marcos. Bikes are catching on, especially on campus at Texas State University. The credit for helping create that bike culture goes, in part, to the Bike Cave.
“It’s such a niche thing right now if like people […]

Duke News: Let’s Ride - Making Duke and Durham more bike friendly
For seven years, Bob Clemen has been commuting to Duke’s Fuqua School of Business – a five-mile trek in heavy traffic through major intersections. Not that unusual, except that Clemen makes this trip by bicycle.“The scariest thing in the world is to have a […]

Columbia Missourian: Residents curb car usage for ‘Low-Car’ challenge
Chad Canfield’s alarm blares. He peers at it: 4:30 a.m. His feet won’t hit the floor until 5, but within the hour, he’ll strap on a helmet and buzz down Broadway, where he’ll combat zero traffic and get a rare peek at Columbia while most of the […]

Mt Shasta Herald: A two-wheeled wonder that benefits the planet
“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.” -John F. Kennedy
How often can a simple, routine, daily activity be transformed into something that benefits the planet, the health of both the individual and others, and the economy- and be fun at the same […]

Scotsman.com: Train and bike . . just the ticket
The most recent Transport 2000 survey has highlighted a host of problems people face if they are attempting to travel to railway stations by bicycle, including insecure cycle parking and the lack of safe routes to stations. This is something that must be addressed because bicycles […]

Bike Radar: Bike/bus schemes winning over Stateside commuters
While bike rental schemes are hitting the headlines in Europe, a quieter revolution is happening on the other side of the Atlantic. Bus and bike commuter schemes have been on the increase in the USA and Canada in recent years, and the trend is gathering momentum. Services vary, […]

SMH: Souped-up pedal power
Having given up on the privately owned internal combustion engine a few years ago, we are now a three-bicycle family. This brings with it its own rewards, and its own set of problems. For a start, the big Saturday supermarket shop has gone - those panniers can only hold so much. And […]

SeattlePI: Picture a new way to arrive at your location - Event spotlights transportation alternatives
The people looked frozen in time on Second Avenue, sitting on folding chairs and pretending their hands were on steering wheels. They also sat shoulder to shoulder to illustrate riding make-believe buses or light rail. But those moments on Sunday […]

Brattleboro Reformer: Putney ‘pedals’ climate message
This town is reducing its carbon footprint one pedal at a time. The Putney Energy Committee, a Selectboard-endorsed group, has officially launched its bike project. Over the past few months members of the committee have been scouring though piles at the dump, and going through discarded parts at […]

Scotsman.com: Weak links’ in public transport criticised
Public transport has too many “weak links” with people finding it difficult to switch from one mode to another, a watchdog said yesterday. Rail passengers cited buses that do not connect with train times, insecure cycle parking and poorly-lit footpaths as barriers to using local train services. Yesterday, cyclist […]

Times Online: Four wheels bad, two wheels good as Beijing aims for smog-free Olympics
Wang Yong wants to see bicycles massed on the streets of Beijing but many in the Chinese capital think that his ideas are ahead of his time. The city fabled as the “Kingdom of the Bicycle” has fallen out of love […]

Adelaide Now: On yer (company) bike
While a company car is coveted by many employees, Centacare is setting a benchmark by offering one of its staff a bicycle. The company bicycle was provided as part of a wage package to Richard Bentley, who works for Centacare’s ASK Employment and Training Services at Gilles Plains, and is […]

York Region.com: Have bike, will travel
Reporter Caroline Grech risks life and limb to cycle to work on York’s mean streets
“The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of 3,000 miles per gallon.” — Bill Strickland, The Quotable Cyclist.
I left Gloria at home today. Gloria is […]

Portland Business Journal: Poll finds public willing to pay for transportation improvements
Portlanders support paying more to improve transportation in the city, according the the results of a survey. A poll of 900 Portland voters conducted by Davis, Hibbitts & Midgall Inc. found repairing streets, neighborhood and pedestrian safety improvements, signal synchronization to help with congestion, […]

CBS News: Berlin’s Bicycle Boom: CBSNews.com’s Lagorio On The Prevalence Of Bikers In Berlin
One of the first lessons a visitor to Berlin learns is to stay out of the red. This isn’t a lesson in accounting; it has nothing to do with the exchange rate. It is about walking down the sidewalk. Strolling through […]

24dash.com: Numbers double in green transport scheme
Jam Busting June, the travel scheme to get commuters to swap their cars for greener modes of transport, had twice as many entrants than last year. More than 3,000 people took part, saving 70,000 car miles and CO2 levels were reduced by more than 8.3 tonnes.
The scheme ran throughout […]

The Brunei Times: Cycles for health, clean air
Jakarta is notorious for its air pollution and traffic jam. Taking bicycles to work places, as well as for shopping or visiting friends and relatives has captured the hearts and minds of a number of people in this busy, smoky city. Started among people who like cycling […]

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 — […]

Seattle PI: Drivers trade gas pedals for bicycle pedals - Ridership up during I-5 work
Most years, the precipitating event is Bike-to-Work day. Each May, it signals an end to the long winter slumber of Gary Powell’s bicycle. This year was different, however. The house, the family, the “eight million other things to do,” he said, […]