As French daily La Tribune (pay-per view article) recognises, rather than the Little Mermaid, the bicycle is really the symbol of Copenhagen, a city where 36% of people cycle to work and, according to Majbritt Kjeldstrom, a local government spokesman, 60% of people use the bike daily. And the queen of this cycle fairyland must be the Christiania tricycle. Competition in the tricycle market has heated up, since the entrance of the curvyNihola trike seven years ago. Recent entrants in the market have included : [...]

Philadelphia Doubles Police Bicycle Patrols “The city has nearly doubled the number of police officers on bicycle patrol in an attempt to discourage street-corner drug deals. The 94 new bicycle officers are members of the Narcotics Strike Force who volunteered for bicycle duty and underwent 40 hours of training, bringing the number of bicycle officers citywide to 200.”

The Dutch understood it several decades ago: money spent on cycling infrastructure has a much higher ROI than money spent on any other means of transport. The UK authorities are slowly getting it. The LCC reports that “the Secretary of State for Transport, has announced that the Government will be investing £140 million over the next three years to boost cycling nationally.” [Let's put this in context: Amsterdam (population 2.2 million) has a 5 year cycling budget of €100 million; and who has more work [...]