Bicycle riding is healthy, low cost, low energy consumption, way to travel around. Bicyclists get exercise, outdoors time, and have more fun in their travels than do car drivers. Unfortunately many countries have forgotten the joy of cycling, and design their cities to give preference to cars.
To cross a motorway the municipality of Harderwijk has built a wooden bicycle overpass. This video shows clearly the bicycle overpass safely crosses a major highway, serves not only bicyclists but pedestrians, and is part of a larger system of bicycle/pedestrian paths in the region. Harderwijk is a few miles…
Santa Clara CA just approved a “road diet” on a section of Tasman Blvd that’s extremely over-built for current traffic needs (6 lanes of road, where 4 lanes would suffice). The plan would create a bicycle lane going each direction, but some on the City Council objected because of a huge…
Mountain View California is an excellent place in many ways – that’s why I’ve lived here for about half of the last 23 years. The climate is one of the best things we have going for us here, and it’s a climate that is perfect for bicycling. For the vast…
Cargo bicycles are a great way to get around, do some shopping, catch some fresh air, exercise the legs, contribute to our city being a nicer place to live, etc.
A proposal to create a “green highway” out of lesser used country roads was reported in Time Magazine this week. The intriguing idea is centered on country roads that have been bypassed by the Interstate Highway system. These roads connect small towns and large cities and are still useful if…
What’s a green conscious person to do for transportation after traveling to a distant city? Do they forego their green lifestyle and simply rent a car? Or do they look for alternative ways of getting around their destination? Bicycles are a very green form of transportation and while it’s possible…
What if your commute could be a bicycle ride through parks and side streets? It would produce less traffic anxiety, improve your personal health, negate noise pollution, and improve the environment. While obviously bicycle commuting is not appropriate for those with a long stretch of highway between home and job,…
The compelling offer presented by The Car (you know, a box, four wheels, an engine, with pollution pouring out the back) is freedom to go wherever you want, whenever you want. The problem is the result we are living with isn’t exactly the beautiful vision of freedom. Is it freedom…
Wal-Mart, Best Buy and REI have either already or will soon enter the electric bicycle market (as noted in an earlier Green Transportation article). In the U.S. electric bicycles are little known but in other countries (notably Europe and China) they are more popular and widely known. In the U.S.…
Bicycling is one of the greenest forms of transportation you could imagine. Bicycles require minimal materials to build, require minimal space during use and other times, require minimum energy during use, and give riders exercise improving their health. Yet bicyclists often have friction with car drivers and there is a…
