The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, announced London's version of the Parisian Vélib' bike share programme today. Maybe they'll call it Londib'."I pledged to deliver a cycling revolution across the ci...

For one brilliant week in September 2011, the air pollution levels from car traffic in Copenhagen fell by a whopping 30%. The City of Copenhagen took a bold step in planning the Road Racing World Cham...

That's Carl Scully on the right.We know all too well what we're up against in the battle to mainstream urban cycling. There are all manner of obstacles, not least individuals, who act as a stiff headw...

I had a visit a while back from a New York writer, Eric Marcus, and we went for a bike ride. Eric lives in Chelsea, in New York, and has become a bicycle advocate in that cool neighbourhood. Nevermind...

Click for a larger version.I've been quietly looking into noise recently.There was an article back in November in a Danish newspaper about the negative effect traffic noise has on the population. A go...

You think YOU have problems with people obstructing bike lanes?! This is how they do it in Barcelona. Saw another woman another day 20 metres along doing the same thing, with a yoga mat on the bike pa...

I had the pleasure of speaking at the Eco.ch conference in Basel last Friday. The theme was "Nature & Mobility - Increasing Mobility with Reduced Traffic". I gave a version of my Bicycle Urbanism by D...

Queen Louise's Bridge / Dronning Louises Bro - CopenhagenI'll have the pleasure of teaching at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS) in the fall, on a course run by my colleague and urban livea...

As we highlighted last week, the Danish police announced they would be going after bicycle users this week and sure enough, they were at it. Hiding behind a tree along The Lakes, as above. This office...