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Cycling Middle East

Defiant

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It takes some inner strength to battle against both social pressure not to cycle due to your sex and against a cycle-unfriendly environment: Yasmine Mahmoud cuts a defiant figure as she weaves her bicycle through the chaotic streets of Cairo, a place where few women dare to pedal. Every day, like for the past four […]

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Here, have this talisman to protect you from a ton of speeding metal. Totally works! You’d be mad not to wear it!

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So, in the UK I see that the police are stopping Evesham cyclists to warn against dark clothing (via road.cc) and handing out the old hi-viz. “In 2009, cycling charity CTC was critical of Hampshire Constabulary for stopping riders who were wearing dark clothing. A CTC spokesman said at that time: “It’s curious the police […]

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M50 on a winters eve
Cycling Environment Society

Car shaped minds

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@CyclingVillage (Keith Byrne) posted a link to an article in the Connacht Trib (“Rogue rickshaws an ‘accident waiting to happen’”). It’s a great example of car shaped thinking, one where almost nobody tries to look at the issues from any other perspective whatsoever. The default is to drive, and everything else must be bent, twisted […]

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Cycling Environment Government The Inter-Department Co-Ordination Board

National Roads Authority drives through national climate policy

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Tsk.. In 2009 the Department of Transport published Smarter Travel – A New Transport Policy for Ireland 2009 -2020. This policy document includes targets to ensure that by 2020 the total kilometres travelled by the national car fleet does not exceed 2009 levels, and that workplace single-car commuting travel reduces to 45% (from around 65% […]

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