Sweden is taking its fight against road trauma to the next level: increasing bike travel to reduce road-related mortality.
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Acclaimed Oxford Street plan excludes bikes
Recently announced plans to make one of the world’s premier shopping streets – London’s Oxford Street – car free have been welcomed with wonder and acclaim. But did anyone pause to question what the plan did for bikes? You guessed it: the plan excludes bikes from the street. Oxford Street is a key east-west bike [...]
Singapore says no more cars
With roads already taking up 12 per cent of its land area, Singapore will cap the total number of cars in the city state from February 2018. “In view of land constraints and competing needs, there is limited scope for further expansion of the road network,” the Land Transport Authority (LTA) explains. The island government [...]
Mobility rated mediocre in Australia
A new city-ranking list has named Brisbane as the best city in Australia but overall mobility in major centres is mediocre. Called the Sustainable Cities Mobility Index and published by private engineering and urban planning firm Arcadis, the list ranks cities on the performance of their transport networks, for quality of life, environmental impact and [...]
Amsterdam gives dockless bikes the flick
As a city with staggering numbers of bikes on the street each day, Amsterdam has never really felt the need for bike share schemes, but they arrived anyway.