By 2030, bicycling will be fully intertwined with Portland’s regional transit system. Streetcar, light and commuter rail, water taxis and bus transit are all planned and operated with the needs of bicyclists in mind and as high-priority customers who will reach transit stations by bike and partner to reduce reliance on the automobile.
Neighborhood Greenways or Bike Boulevards are residential streets with low volumes of auto traffic and low speeds where bicycle and pedestrians are given priority…
The City of Sydney is building a 200km cycle network across the entire City area. The network is designed to improve connections between employment, recreation and residential destinations to make cycling an attractive and safe transport choice.
Denver B-cycle launched on Earth Day 2010. During 2011, riders logged more than 431,817 miles, a nearly 97 percent increase over 2010, according to Denver Bike Sharing executive director Parry Burnap. The program debuted with roughly 400 bicycles scattered across 40 stations throughout the city’s downtown and key surrounding areas.
New York City is introducing Citi Bike in order to provide New Yorkers with an additional transportation option for getting around their city. A bike sharing system consists of a fleet of specially designed, heavy-duty, very durable bikes that are locked into a network of docking stations sited at regular intervals around a city.
BIXI bike-sharing came to Montreal in 2009, with 3,000 of the specially-designed bicycles distributed among 300 closely-spaced stations in the city’s downtown. Today, the system boasts 5,000 bicycles and 400 stations spread more widely across the city.
In the first year after its launch in May 2011, BIXI achieved its goal of 5,000 members and surpassed 48,000 casual riders. Torontonians had taken more than 556,000 BIXI bike trips…
By international standards, Surabaya has an extremely high mode share of private motorized trips (predominantly motorcycle) relative to per capita incomes, despite the fact that average trip distances “as the crow flies” are extremely short.
Transportation-related issues present a serious challenge to improving the quality of life for Mexico City’s 19 million residents. Of the 2.5 million tons of pollutants emitted into the city’s air each year, more than 80% is from cars and other motorized vehicles.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Region has a population of 12.8 million and the number of bicycles owned is 8.4 million, which equates to 1 out of 1.5 persons owning a bicycle.
