Posts tagged bicycles.

I want an upper-back dog.

transportationnation:

When your dog is too big to ride in the basket.

(Seen on Charlton Street near WNYC.)

#dogs  #bicycles  #nyc  #bike lanes  #ftw  
∞  10/03/12 at 11:08am via transportationnation
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Denmark debuts beautiful bicycle superhighway ›

#denmark  #Copenhagen  #bicycles  #bike lanes  #infrastructure  #transportation  #land use  #city planning  #urban planning  #superhighway  
∞  07/18/12 at 07:18pm
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kateoplis: “Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people [the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet], saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80 percent of its population commutes by bicycle, even in winter. That’s $300 per person per year. Clearly, the reason the new Danish minister of the interior said she’d ‘rather invest in cycle tracks than freeways,’ is that only one of those has a positive return.” [photo: Ben] From Copenhagen’s biannual Bicycle Account | Grist  HIGH RES

kateoplis:

“Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people [the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet], saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80 percent of its population commutes by bicycle, even in winter. That’s $300 per person per year.

Clearly, the reason the new Danish minister of the interior said she’d ‘rather invest in cycle tracks than freeways,’ is that only one of those has a positive return.” [photo: Ben]

From Copenhagen’s biannual Bicycle Account | Grist 

#copenhagen  #should i move here?  #bikes  #transportation  #bicycles  #danish  #infrastructure  #economy  #health  #economic development  
∞  04/04/12 at 03:38pm via kateoplis
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