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  • Fast, inexpensive street changes that get big results

    June 24, 2016 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    In Pennsylvania, many cities face challenges in implementing Complete Street policies to improve street and transportation safety in urban cores. The cities and organizations that have done this successfully offer ideas to others about how they can use creative financing and piloting to overcome barriers and enforce the policy.

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  • A Bowl Full of Hope

    March 13, 2015 |

    GOOD Magazine |

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    Response Location: Turkey, Istanbul

    With the recent large influx of refugees, crumbling infrastructure, crowded streets, and struggling social services, bing disabled or homeless in Istanbul means facing serious challenges to carving out a dignified life. But one group is helping bring these communities together and create empowerment through cycling. Engelsiz Çorba partners disabled volunteers with cyclists to deliver food to the homeless and encourage them to share their stories.

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  • Istanbul is slowly but surely getting on its bike

    January 04, 2015 |

    The National |

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    Response Location: Turkey, Istanbul

    Istanbul is often congested with traffic, especially as the population grows and more people buy cars but the lack of bicycle infrastructure has prevented biking from being an alternative transportation. This is changing now that biking is being encouraged through social media, the Cyclists' Transport Platform organizing group bike rides, the creation of bike lanes and other initiatives.

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  • A Critical Mass Tragedy Sparks a Bicycle Boom in Brazil

    July 30, 2014 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Porto Alegre

    Support and popularity for bicycle use and culture has grown in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Following a deadly incident killing two cyclists at a bicycle event, the city has seen a demonstrative outpouring of support. City officials and activists say that while the tragedy created a sense of solidarity in support of cyclists, the city itself has started seeing shifts, in culture and policy, over the years to become more bicycle friendly.

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  • Why Sweden has so few road deaths

    February 26, 2014 |

    The Economist |

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    Response Location: Sweden

    Sweden's "Vision Zero" program has used a comprehensive approach to infrastructure and regulation to drastically reduce traffic-related deaths, making Swedish roads the safest in the world.

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  • There IS a Bicycle Economy, Two Cities Find

    October 02, 2012 |

    TreeHugger |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Conventional merchants are afraid to lose parking spaces to bike parking or bike lanes. New York and Portland are finding cyclists increase local economies, and spend more money too.

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  • The Bicycle Revolution in Paris, Five Years Later

    July 18, 2012 |

    Inter Press Service News Agency |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    Paris is a city plagued by traffic jams and air pollution. In 2007, the local government created a public bicycle sharing program called Velib that has drastically reduced the number of cars on the roadways and parking lots. During five years, over a hundred million people have used the program and it has a quarter of a million subscribers.

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  • Why the Streets of Copenhagen and Amsterdam Look So Different From Ours

    April 25, 2012 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Denmark, Copenhagen

    When Amsterdam and the Netherlands were facing an urban dilemma between building bicycle or automobile friendly streets, citizens organized to promote the prioritization of cyclist safety above all else. This public outcry and strategy lead to these cities becoming a model for livable streets.

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