A bike-friendly planet

YEAR 2012

A bike-friendly planet

It tones up your body, does not produce polluting emissions, lets you ride with agility …

It tones up your body, does not produce polluting emissions, lets you ride with agility through the traffic and doesn’t compel you to pay for the parking toll.

These are just a few of the “benefits of a bicycle” according to the Tee illustration a nice Tee illustration (see picture) that spread lately through the Web.

And it’s all true, of course. Yet, while bicycles are undoubtedly planet-friendly, in spite of some virtuous examples like the bicycle highway our planet is still quite far from being bike-friendly.

On this point, some days ago Yesmagazine published four interesting ideas coming from different parts of the world: a Dutch bicycle-schoolbus for ten; a bicycle repair workshop in Pittsburgh where you can learn how to fix your bike; bike-sharing on a large scale in the huge Chinese town of Hangzhou; and a Bike Fixation Kiosk in Minneapolis.

And since parking your bike is free but you still need some space, here’s another brilliant project that we found surfing through the net: the Bikehanger, a bicycle storage facility designed specifically for dense urban areas.

Links

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