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London Cycling Campaign

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Our five-year strategy Our strategy 2008-13 LCC's latest five-year strategy document, entitled One in Five by 2025, covers the period 2008-2013. It outlines specific activities and targets in pursuit of our vision. You can download the full strategy and a summary of this document on the right. The list of objectives below form the core of LCC's strategic direction for the next five years: Promote cycling to the people Many people are slow to realise the benefits of cycling, so we must skilfully make them see them. Redesign our streets for cycles Our streets and neighbourhoods need to be redesigned to be more cycle-friendly. Promote cycling to our politicians We must promote the facts, that cycling is cheap and provides a solution to five great public policy concerns for London. Make cycling diverse and inclusive Equality and inclusion are two key LCC values, and are central to our plan to make London a cycling city. the site...

David Byrne Bicycle Diaries

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Since the early 1980s, David has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them with him when travelling around the world. DB's choice was initially made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the more he became hooked on this mode of transport and the sense of liberation, exhilaration, and connection it provided. This point of view, from his bike seat, became his panoramic window on urban life, a magical way of opening one’s eyes to the inner workings and rhythms of a city’s geography and population. more...

David Byrne's Bike Racks

SSWC are in September

Wednesday September 16th 12:00pm Coloring Contest Opening at Ska Brewing 3:00pm Hermosa Tours Shuttle, Champion Down, 25 spots 4:15pm Hermosa Tours Shuttle, Champion Down, 25 spots 5-6:00pm Group ride from Durango Rec Center 8:00pm Post Ride BeerBQ at Seanʼs House 10:00pm Live Music at Derail Saloon Thursday September 17th 8:00am Hermosa Tours Shuttle, Blackhawk-Hermosa, 25 spots 9:00am Group ride from Fort Lewis College clock tower 10:00-2pm Lunch Party/Registration at Buckley Park 3:00pm Hermosa Tours Shuttle, Champion Down, 25 spots 4:15pm Hermosa Tours Shuttle, Champion Down, 25 spots 4:00-7pm Run What You Brung Bike Show at The Irish Embassy 6:00pm Group ride from Durango Cyclery 6:00pm Ladies ride from Durango Cyclery 9:00pm Live Music at Derail Saloon Friday September 18th 8:00am Hermosa Tours Shuttle, Champion Down, 25 spots 9:15am Hermosa Tours Shuttle, Champion Down, 25 spots 7-10:00am Pancake breakfast at Buckley Park by Sol Cycles 9:00am Group ride/ race course pre ride fro...

Too many wheels on the bus - The Dispatch

Orphaned bikes piling up in COTA garage might go to charity Monday, August 3, 2009 3:07 AM BY JOHN FUTTY THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH SHARI LEWIS | DISPATCH Nearly 100 bicycles are in COTA's bus garage after being left on bus racks. In five years, fewer than 100 have been claimed out of 400 left behind. Since COTA started putting bicycle racks on the front of all its buses nearly five years ago, hundreds of people have left their bikes behind after riding the bus. Some are nice enough that one would expect the owners to come looking for them. When they don't, the Central Ohio Transit Authority is left wondering what to do: trash them, sell them or give them away? "This is a problem for us," President Bill Lhota said recently as he surveyed nearly 100 bicycles hanging on or leaning against a wall in the bus garage at COTA's headquarters. Some are old and battered, but others are new and well-maintained. Ed Sowinski, a transportation supervisor for COTA, estimated that 40...