Germany has decided to go one step further and, instead of opting for traditional cycling lanes, has chosen to build highways open to cyclists. Bicycles are becoming alternative and competitive means of transport in cities, which are also more and more traffic-congested, resulting in stressful driving conditions. But in case you want to move from
Three months are enough to come to know China’s different aspects. Daniele Carletti and Simona Pergola, the Italian couple that has been travelling around the world by bike since July 2014, after postponing their departure from China, decided that their next destination will be Indochina. After going down the Tibetan mountains, they carried out
Citizens around the world will march together on November 29th, by foot or bike, to call for action against climate change. The event was announced by 130 organisations, gathered in the Climate Coalition, on the eve of Paris Conference of Parties that was established in order for the UN member countries to reach a binding
Bicycles as candidate for Nobel Peace Prize. Caterpillar, the radio programme broadcast on Rai Radio 2, known for the environmental initiative M’illumino di meno, is launching the Bike the Nobel campaign in order to present bicycles as a candidate for Nobel Peace Prize. The programme, hosted by Massimo Cirri and Sara Zambotti, relaunched the idea
Discovering “silent” Barcelona’s street art by bike. That’s what David Cristian did on his folding bike one Sunday morning, in search of graffiti in some areas of the Catalan city. “You can easily picture Saturday evenings in Catalonia by thinking about tapas, beer, terraces and plaças full of people until really late at night. That’s why – David
Give me a bike and I’ll bring peace to the world. This could be a slogan for the initiative Bike4Truce started by OLOS Foundation, that has been committing itself for years to reach a truce and stop wars during the Olympic Games. The Olympic truce should be declared through a resolution adopted by the UN
In the Netherlands there are far many bicycles so much so they took up all the racks as well as public areas in big cities. That’s why the Dutch cycling embassy, a public private network operating in the field of urban planning and mobility in the Netherlands, is collaborating with the Dutch railway company to promote Ov-fiets, a
Una rivoluzione verde quella che sta coinvolgendo i centri di molte città europee. Puntando su trasporto pubblico, ciclabile e sullo sharing.
Smartphones and bicycles instead of cars. This is what teenagers these days prefer, while, on the contrary, in former times, young people craved to pass their driving test and get a car, as a means to become more independent adults. So, it’s not due to diesel emissions scandal that Germans don’t drive as they did
Poland has surprised everyone as regards the use of bicycles and cycling infrastructures: in the 2014 edition of the European cycling challenge the top five cities were exclusively Polish and Italian. Rome thought to be the favourite even if it isn’t exactly a bike-friendly city, still, it ranked third after two Polish cities: the
