Posts Tagged ‘Copenhagenize’

Since they outgrew the Pfluger pedestrian bridge, Social Cycling Austin’s Thursday Night Social Ride eventually settled on Festival Beach near Fiesta Gardens as their meeting spot to start the ride. This spot better accommodates the 200 to as many as 500 people who take part in the weekly ride. Working with City staff, City Councilman [...]

ATTENTION BICYCLE ADVOCATES: Watch this video set before you do any more work As I have mentioned before, for all the good work that bicycle advocacy does it has some problems as well. As one advocate put it, “we often show more interest in the facility or the bike than people.” The people promoting cycling [...]

I recently came across this cycling promotional video from the City of Aveiro, Portugal, via Copenhagenize, and it is an interesting guide for those who want to promote cycling beyond the already committed. In this ad, cycling is presented as an integrated part of living the good life in the city. Where cars appear at [...]

Last week while introducing the Hollywood Golden Age on two wheels site Rides a Bike, I intimated that part of the problem with how cycling is sold to the public is lack of sex appeal. It’s really not the bike industry’s fault. It’s a male dominated, techno focused trade that is more impressed with gear [...]

Last weeks, Copenhagenize author Mikael Colville-Andersen gave a brilliant speech at the TEDx Copenhagen conference about the effect our culture of fear has on reducing bicycle use. He takes on several assumptions about the protective quality of helmets and our curious exemption of automobiles, the leading cause of accidental death in the Western world, from [...]

I just saw this amazing video over at Copenhagenize about how cycle paths, i.e. separate bike only roads running parallel to automotive roads, got started in the Netherlands. Who knew Napoleon was the genesis of bike paths and that conflict between bicycles and horse carriage, not cars, caused the Dutch to adopt separate facilities. It [...]

As reported by ATXBS, Austin.Candence, and Fox 7, one of our local bike shops, Austin Bikes, has been hit hard with a wave of burglaries with a loss of over $25,000 in four break-ins in recent weeks. Needless to say, these kinds of losses are hardly the thing a small local bike shop can easily [...]

OK, many of you may not find talking about the assignment of liability particularly fun, but it is more relevant considering the recent report that three months after the passage of Austin’s 3 foot safe passing ordinance, APD has issued no tickets under the new law. For those of us riding on the streets, we [...]

Inspiration for the Copenhagenization the rest of the world With the Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen remains very much in the news especially on the bike front. As a city with a dominate car culture until the 1970s, Copenhagen pulled back from the gasoline induced sprawl most of the Western world embraced and now has 37% [...]

With all the discussions, designing, and arguments over bicycle boulevards, it can be hard to see the forest from the trees. The details can often trip us up in our overall goal: to make the bicycle a substantial part of our transportation mix and a natural choice for a growing number of citizens. Since the [...]