From UPS’ website (first posted a few years ago) “Pedal power! To help alleviate traffic congestion and air pollution in Stuttgart, Germany, UPS now delivers in the center city on special, large-load bicycles — reducing the number of UPS package delivery trucks.”

Where are you going, beauty on a bicycle, so much haste, pedaling with ardour? Your legs, slim, shaped and beautiful have already put passion in my heart! Where are you going, with hair in the wind with a joyous heart and a seductive smile? If you wish, sooner or later, we will reach the goal of love. … The title song of a 1950′s Italian film Full lyrics (with an mp3 extract) by Marcello Marchesi. Image by Plip

Excellent set of videos, produced for Transport for London, featuring the bicycle squads at the City of London Police (whose fleet now counts more bicycles than cars), The London Ambulance Service and the Metropolitan Police. Some quotes: “[After introducing bicycles] we halved the response time to two minutes” “We can beat anything to a call” “The bike gives accessibility to members of the public; sometimes when you are parked up in an ambulance, people are reluctant, not because we are ogres, but it is just [...]