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Cycling for Everyone: Lessons for Vancouver from the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany

This review from http://www.copenhagenize.com/

An hour-long filmed seminar with legendary John Pucher at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.

Release date: 18 Jun 2008

The Cycling Advocates' Network (CAN) welcomes the release of a discussion document proposing compulsory third party insurance for all motorists.

We have received many (too many!) responses to our call for reporting cycle crashes on tram tracks. The following response is from somebody who hasn't actually come off his bike, but his views and observations warrant their own article. So here it goes.

Here is a slideshow with descriptions of hazards to people cycling along the tram route.

Hey all - we are the media darlings of the moment... I've been contacted by no less than three TV stations today, and I need your help to boost the profile of Chch cycling.

1) TV3 are putting together a story about high petrol prices, and would like to interview "someone who has taken up or increased cycling in a bid to save on petrol money.
Ideally someone who has stopped driving to work/university and now bikes and is already making a tangible financial and/or environmental of health saving/benefit by leaving the car at home more. "

Something from the wider world - I expect I'm not the only Spokester with an interest in the US Presedential campaign. An article from the NY Times, Gas Prices Expected to Peak in June, contained this overview of the three leading candidates' views on petrol price rises:

Spokes website member mollivan_jon has just pointed the following story out to us. He writes:

In case you're not already well aware of http://www.ghostbike.org/, there is currently an interesting story and discussion going on over at Boing Boing about ghost bikes

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/30/ghost-bikes-memorial.html

Spokes has adopted a vision or "manifesto" for cycling in Christchurch. These "Top 10 initiatives" are what we would like to see happen to make Christchurch a cycling friendly city. They were formally adopted at the Spokes AGM on Tuesday 20 May.

SPOKES TOP 10 INITIATIVES

A CYCLING VISION FOR GREATER CHRISTCHURCH

In the February 08 newsletter, we reported that Christchurch City Council had decided to mark yellow no stopping lines again in cycle lanes that are adjacent to the kerb. Spokes has enquired with Council on progress. Here's what Michael Ferigo, the Council's cycle planner, has to say:

Two Surveys

As a cyclist, do you have an opinion on the tram tracks in the central city? Perhaps you've even had a crash on those tracks? Do you know that Christhchurch City Council (CCC) is proposing to extend the tram network?

We've created two surveys on the tram system, and we would like you to fill out one of those surveys: