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Some good news: Bike ridership continues to grow across New York City! 📈 Over the past three months, the Brooklyn Bridge has seen its highest bike ridership since data collection began in 2013. 📈 Meanwhile, the Willis Avenue Bridge also experienced a notable 21% year-over-year increase in bike traffic last month. 📈 Bike counts on the Staten Island Ferry are up 3x 📈 Queensboro Bridge: June and July are also up, now rank in top two months ever. Each month getting nearly 100,000+ more bike riders per month than a decade ago. 📈 Pulaski Bridge bike counts are up even before the G train shutdown: June was up 63%, July up 60%. We’ve said it once, and we’ll say it again: The bike boom is here to stay!

📚🚲 South Central Power Up is deploying 250 e-bikes, available to rent for a month at a time at 7 different locations in the community, to help riders get around more easily, reliably and affordably. This program is a result of over a year of collaboration, outreach, and organizing from the community organizations that will serve as hubs to rent #EBikes and provide training to all participants. To build a green economy that is truly #inclusive, we need to ensure that all communities in Greater Los Angeles have access to affordable, clean transportation. Ultimately, we are looking to surface and share learnings from this new, long-term e-bike pilot rental program that will help us scale similar programs and clean transportation solutions across the region. Learn more about this new program: laci.la/SCPUEBikeLibrary

What's Driving Calgary's Rent Frenzy? #yychomesales #yycemptynesters #yycseniorsrealestate #yychomes #yyc #yycluxuryhomes #calgaryrealestateagents #calgaryrealestate #yycrealtors #calgaryrealtors

I always hear that expanding cycling infrastructure won't work in their city because everyone drives everywhere, it snows, it rains, it's too hot, etc. And yet, when a coherent network gets put in place it gets used...a lot. The demand is there - we just need a way to get from point A to point B without gaps. (Can you imagine if we built our highway system like we build our cycling network - one lot frontage at a time???). The recent news from Edinburgh and their construction of a 2-mile-long cycle track through their city center is another positive sign of cities making investments to connect their cycling infrastructure. #urbanism #cycling #sustainability #Edinburgh https://lnkd.in/eTr2WQJt

Bloomberg | Transforming Edinburgh’s historic streets for urban cycling hasn’t been straightforward. With just six years until the city hits its deadline for net-zero emissions, this small breakthrough is perhaps emblematic of a new phase in which cycling, walking and public transit delivery are set to ramp up. The City of Edinburgh Council just launched a major citywide plan for transport, which it hopes will end what to date has been a piecemeal approach. The Future Streets policy considers the city in terms of various networks — a combination of buses, walking, trams, general traffic and cycling — and designates streets for those modes accordingly. It also sets out how the city will meet air quality and road safety targets, as well as cutting motor traffic by 30%. Of 1,200 city residents surveyed, 22% cycle at least once a week, against the 15% average of other UK cities. Because the city is fairly compact, an impressive 66% walk or wheel at least once a week. However, while almost half of residents say they want to walk and wheel (45%) and cycle (49%) more, since 2021 cycling participation has remained static: Ultimately, most people want consistently safe routes to cycle. Edinburgh led the way first on school streets — timed vehicle restrictions outside school gates in the mornings and afternoons — then on 20 mph speed limits and, more recently, becoming the first city in Scotland to ban pavement parking. Its public transport is a success story, too: A new tram extension to Leith exceeded all expectations, doubling network usage virtually overnight.

The development of protected bike lanes inherently supports equitable urban planning by providing safer transportation options for all community members, including those who rely on cycling as a primary mode of transportation. For more details, you can read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eRPEgcFG

If we had the equivalent of x4 747's falling out of the sky every year we would treat the number of people who die on the UK's roads every year very differently. https://lnkd.in/ef4ATHQe I have long advocated for regular retesting of drivers every 10 years. Laws change (see Smart Motorways for example) and once you pass at 17 you need not relearn again until you hit 70. THAT'S 53 YEARS! Simply trying to engineer our way out of the problem is NOT the solution. It's a great step to make roads safer but all the while PEOPLE drive cars we need to re-educate the people, too. Retesting and removing unsafe drivers may well also help with reduction in traffic volumes too as those who cannot pass will not be able to drive and this will mean greater demand for public transport or improved driving performance to retain licences. Radical? Yes.... but we need to reduce 1700 deaths per annum.....

Trails View Cycle Trader's ethos is ownership is temporary, You don't need to be tied down to the same bike year after year Why own the same bicycle for years and years when you can easily unlock its value and ride something different? Most Cyclists don't get a different bike year after year, That used to be a luxury reserved to the super rich or sponsored riders Not Any More Trails View Cycle trader are changing the way we buy and sell bicycles. Whether you are ready to upgrade to something new or need assistance selling an unused bike to free up some extra funds, Trails View Cycle Trader is here for you, with a focus on customer service and professionalism that will have you coming back year after year.

Trails View Cycle Trader's ethos is ownership is temporary, You don't need to be tied down to the same bike year after year Why own the same bicycle for years and years when you can easily unlock its value and ride something different? Most Cyclists don't get a different bike year after year, That used to be a luxury reserved to the super rich or sponsored riders Not Any More Trails View Cycle trader are changing the way we buy and sell bicycles. Whether you are ready to upgrade to something new or need assistance selling an unused bike to free up some extra funds, Trails View Cycle Trader is here for you, with a focus on customer service and professionalism that will have you coming back year after year.

Very important line here from Louise Haigh MP on road safety: "We treat road safety in a way as if it is somehow a natural accident. If the number of people being killed or seriously injured on our roads, were being killed in any other way, we'd be treating it as a pandemic." I've long said society has normalised road deaths and that's reflected in how the system fails to tackle this huge issue. The Government has said it will launch the first road safety strategy for over 10 years and will look at best practice on vision zero from around the world, and from cities who have committed to it in the UK. I really hope this plan is ambitious and challenges the status quo. #roadsafety #cycling #walking #transport #roaddangerreduction RoadPeace