The Dutch bicycling miracle is all thanks to the political acumen of bicycling advocates in the sixties and seventies demanding separate bike infrastructure. Or, if you don’t like that story, the Dutch bicycling miracle is all thanks to the […]
The government. Why ask the government to spend money on bike infrastructure? If your brother is a communist dictator, sure. But otherwise, the moment you ask, a million car-dependent voters are going to start about cyclists free-riding. “They don’t pay road […]
Any innovative new field of endeavour is bound to spawn some new idioms and some new jargon. It is no different with bicycletecture. Following are most (I think) of the peculiar terms we return to in […]
It’s not that I shy away from big issues. It has simply never occurred to me to write a blog post about cycling’s power over human extinction. An article in last month’s Atlantic explains how the very small 0.1% chance […]
Background: I wrote that Amsterdam is useful to our understanding of the future bike city in ways Copenhagen is not. To European readers I was speaking to an ongoing and rather tedious debate over there about which city is best for cycling. But that’s […]
