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Philadelphia announces plan to be greenest city by 2015 Click Here
Edinburgh Residents Like the Idea! Click Here
Minneapolis Gets Federal Funding? Click Here
Sharing Bikes a Public Good Click Here

May is National Bike Month!

Cartoon Credit: www.bikexchange.com

Celebrate Bicycles! Here is a step by step guide to making the most of May and promoting bicycling in your community complements of The League of American Bicyclists.

To view the pdf : Click Here
To find events going on in your state : Click Here

Vancouver Pledges to be the Greenest City

Green is not Cliche, any city that pledges to become greener is deserving of support. Congratulations to Mayor Gregor Robertson for bringing sustainability to the forefront in British Columbia politics.

Vancouver puts forth plan to make Vancouver "The Greenest City in the World"


City of Vancouver Greenest City Action Team Site - Click Here
Blog Post/Article - Click Here

"Public Bike Sharing Paving the Way to a Greener Urban Environment"

Below is a link to the CNN article published a few weeks ago with some interesting information. The word is spreading, public bicycle sharing can and will change transportation in urban areas.

CNN Article Click Here

University of Utah Launches U Bike Program

University of Utah Launches U Bike Program

Bicycles for this program were provided by The Collegiate Bicycle Company



Thanks for noticing the incorrect link, please report dead links to me as soon as they are noticed!

How else can we prove bicycles are good means of transportation?

Interesting Graph Presented from Cycling Solution





Articles:

Bike Thefts at Emory LINK
Minneapolis Compares to Lyon LINK
USF Official Steps Down After Stealing a $100 Dollar Bike!?!? LINK
JC Decaux Article LINK
DC Bike Share Eyes Expansion LINK

Articles (Bike Share World Still Reeling)

It still seems that the bike sharing world is reeling from one press release from an advertising giant. They clearly know how to manipulate the media. The Streetsblog has disputed the claims of JCDecaux based on five sources while JCDecaux's story was only told in two articles. Interesting. I will let you be the judge.

JCDecaux Spin the Media? - LINK
Cisco Launches the Intelligent Urbanisation - LINK
Spokeswomen Promote Town Cycling Initiative - LINK
Can Thieves and Vandals Defeat Velib - LINK
Don't Stop Velibing - LINK
Velib Could Learn from Austin CarShare - LINK
Transportation Demand Strategies - LINK