Real People’s Transport
Bicyclist in New Delhi attempting to cross a junction - ©Faizan Jawed Tata Motor’s wonder car, the Nano was launched recently in India and popular media touts it as the people’s car – as people’s...
View ArticleBicycle Rickshaw at the Bus Terminal
Last year my cousin came to visit us from Brazil’s capital – the real one, Brasilia, the Federal Capital (and also the one that recently took the title of “most motorized city in Brazil” from...
View ArticleFree Transportation Program
I work for a company that has more than a thousand employees. Approximately eight hundred of them are located in two buildings in the same neighbourhood only half a mile away from each other, and both...
View ArticleNaked by bike in brussels – Cyclonudista 2009
Every year a “World Naked Bike Ride” or Cyclonudista is held in different cities all over the world to show the fragility of cyclists in traffic and ask more (political) attention for cycling as a...
View ArticleSpace Bikes
Maybe some of you heard about the Walkmobile from the Professor Hermann Knoflacher. The Walkmobile was invented in the 70′s as a smart way to address the issue of public space usage. It is a simple...
View ArticleCycling in Buenos Aires
Keep on cycling! © Alex Berry Hi friends from World Car Free, I’m Walter, a bike commuter from Buenos Aires in Argentina. This is my first post and to be honest, I feel delighted to be able to...
View ArticleStill a long way to go in Buenos Aires
In my last post I tried to reflect my views as a bike commuter here in Buenos Aires. I made just a brief comment on public transport but in this post I’d like to picture the scene in a broader way....
View Article57 Short Films About Bicycles
Fifty-seven microdocumentaries shot of or from bicycles on location in Seattle, Amsterdam, and Prague, including footage from various Critical Mass rides. Enjoy!
View ArticlePedal Power: Documentary on Bike Culture
Igor Kenk's former bike shop in Toronto © Christopher Dew/Cogent/Benger Productions The bicycle, a humble nineteenth century invention, is challenging the fossil-fuel automobile as the conveyance of...
View ArticleTaking Back the Streets one Bicycle at a Time
© Andy Singer In Detroit, there are cars. And then there is something known as “non-motorized transportation.” That means bicycles, y’all. Believe it or not, people in the Car Capital of the World...
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