The road of the future? It’s made of plastic
Recycled plastic instead of asphalt: here’s the idea of a Dutch company for a sustainable and quick to build road that requires few maintenance works. Rotterdam has already said yes.
Here is what happens in San Francisco if cyclists follow all the rules
In San Francisco, the police decided to enforce the law by fining cyclists who broke the rules. This instigated cyclists’ protests so much so they wanted to show the city what would have happened if they had strictly abided by the rules. So, each of them stopped at the crossroads one behind the
Volkswagen cheated on US emission rules with 482,000 diesel cars
Volkswagen, one of the world’s largest car manufacturers, has falsified the emissions data of diesel cars sold in the United States, in order to elude tests of the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. The accusation, confirmed by Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn, has been made by the EPA in reference to vehicles sold in the US between
Voglio una ruota, women who choose bicycles instead of roses
Could a seemingly innocuous object like a bicycle contribute to triggering a revolution? This is the question that the website of the documentary Voglio una ruota (I want a wheel) is asking itself, because the invention of bicycles, besides facilitating the right to mobility, encouraged women’s emancipation between the nineteenth and twentieth century. Voglio una ruota is
Spoleto-Norcia: from an abandoned railway to a breath-taking path
The ex-railroad from Spoleto to Norcia is turning into an easy historic, artistic and naturalistic path. At the moment not all the trail can be passed through but there are breath-taking cycling and pesdestrian stretches that let those who go through it plunge into the green. The project of a late ‘800 railway was
From cars to bikes. The urban regeneration of the bicycle parking station of Bologna
Dynamo: the bicycle parking station created from a car park that will be a meeting point dedicated to cyclists and their bikes.
The bike riding of Becycling from China
After celebrating a year riding around the world Daniele Carletti and Simona Pergola arrived in China. Since the beginning there were a few problems: the visa on the passport expires in 30 days, not enough to travel China by bike. On 25 July the guys met three Chinese cyclists that were going to Tibet towards
Choose, change and combine sustainable mobility from 16 to 22 September
The European mobility week this year makes common cause with the campaign Do the right mix. The slogan of this year’s topic is Choose. Change. Combine. It invites people to use the means of transport in a multimodal way, i.e. choosing the smartest option or even combining more than one solution instead of driving a private
Men who hate women (on a bicycle, in London)
Being a female cyclist in London is less safe than expected if due to an argument you can risk your life. That’s what an episode happened between Sidney Street and Whitechapel Road, in the district that has become famous for the crimes committed by Jack the Ripper, seems to demonstrate. A man tried to
Immortus, the solar-powered car that doesn’t need to be fuelled up
An Australian start-up aims to produce it by 2016. Thanks to solar panels and batteries, Immortus doesn’t need to be recharged.