World’s most successful Car-Free Days, every week In Bogota’, every Sunday, 153 km of principal streets become “Bicycle Streets” and are closed to vehicular traffic to give space to 2 million pedestrians, cyclists and skaters. A group of young volunteers completing social service required of all Colombian students, known as “alfabetizadores” (scholars), play a central role in making the Sunday Ciclovias function.

By Riccardo Guasco, via Trackosaurus Rex and others Riccardo has just released a wonderful quintet of drawings of road cyclists.

Bjørn Gabrielsen enlightens us again, this time about the rage for pedalcars and velomobiles in Sweden. The site contains some nostalgic pieces, mainly from late 1940-issues of the DIY magazine “Teknik för alla” (“Shopwork for everyone”). Due to a virtual ban on private car ownership in the later years of WWII, a veritable sub-culture of home-made velocars arose. One main goal was for young men to be able to provide rides for girlfriends for dances! (Dance parties were traditionally held outside of villages in forest [...]