Paris vai ser a nova Cidade da Bicicleta

Posted on March 26th, 2007 in Ambiente,Bicicleta... by Frederico

A cidade de Paris vai disponibilizar, a partir do dia 15 de Julho, bicicletas de aluguer a baixo-preço, incentivando assim a sua utilização no dia-a-dia de modo a reduzir o tráfego, a poluição e os problemas com o parqueamento, bem como melhorar a imagem da própria cidade.

Um VERDADEIRO PLANO de incentivo à utilização da bicicleta:

Paris Embraces Plan to Become City of Bikes

By John Ward Anderson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, March 24, 2007

PARIS, March 23 — Paris is for lovers — lovers of food and art and wine, lovers of the romantic sort and, starting this summer, lovers of bicycles.

On July 15, the day after Bastille Day, Parisians will wake up to discover thousands of low-cost rental bikes at hundreds of high-tech bicycle stations scattered throughout the city, an ambitious program to cut traffic, reduce pollution, improve parking and enhance the city’s image as a greener, quieter, more relaxed place.

By the end of the year, organizers and city officials say, there should be 20,600 bikes at 1,450 stations — or about one station every 250 yards across the entire city. Based on experience elsewhere — particularly in Lyon, France’s third-largest city, which launched a similar system two years ago — regular users of the bikes will ride them almost for free.

“It has completely transformed the landscape of Lyon — everywhere you see people on the bikes,” said Jean-Louis Touraine, the city’s deputy mayor. The program was meant “not just to modify the equilibrium between the modes of transportation and reduce air pollution, but also to modify the image of the city and to have a city where humans occupy a larger space.”

Podem ler o resto no sítio do Washington Post

Ciclismo Seguro – Panfleto

Posted on March 7th, 2007 in Bicicleta... by Frederico

Um grupo de Valladolid, criou um novo panfleto que mostra mais uma vez como se deve andar na cidade…

AsCiValladolid

Muito simples e muito claro!
Podem ver o documento e outras campanhas no sítio da Asamblea Ciclista de Valladolid