Ride Your City

In ‘cool’, ‘trendy’, ‘designer’ cities, bicycle delivery services are cool, trendy, hip. They’re making a statement about about liveable cities, urban quality and climate change. In towns like Rustenburg, North WEST (South Africa), delivery by bicycle is simply the obvious way of moving small ‘freight’. Like this trike, from Thlabane Bakery and Confectionery. Bicycles move

Dear City of Cape Town Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposed traffic plan and bicycle infrastructure for Kommetjie arterial. It’s good to see that despite the challenges, the City of Cape Town is at least on this stretch of road able to act on its vision of ensuring that NMT (non-motorised

With the upcoming series of public holidays and long weekends, many Capetonians will be making use of Cape Town’s roads and highways to travel, says the City of Cape Town in today’s media release – which initially reads like a call for tolerance by all road users… That is, until we get to the usual

Locally designed hydrogen-powered tricycle – named ‘A hi Fambeni’, Xitsonga for ‘Let’s go’ – has attracted much attention since its 2010 launch in South Africa as a sustainably powered goods-to-market vehicle for rural areas. It’s also an entry into the international SMART Mobility EnterPrize competition, which aims to identify existing and emerging sustainable mobility business

The City of Cape Town’s Junior Traffic Centre, sited at Hillstar Traffic Department, has received 25 new bicycles from the Syntell Foundation, which will be used to train children in pedal cycle safety. The Junior Traffic Training Centre (JTTC) was launched in February 2008, and caters for Grade 1 – 3 learners, says Inspector Maxine

Metrorail recently took a policy decision, we’re told, to not permit bicycles on trains in Cape Town – a decision that has significant impact on integration, equity and connectivity within a city of long travel distances (too far to ride). And when questioned about its inability to deal with desperately overloaded carriages in the metro-south-east,

So, says Peter Robertson in today’s Cape Times, cyclists need rear view mirrors so they can see what’s behind them and thus prevent crashes… Hhm, I thought that’s why vehicles had wind screens, so drivers could see in front of them…

“We cannot support legislation that would require competent adults to wear cycle helmets, particularly given the lack of evidence regarding the effectiveness of cycle helmets and given the importance of defending people’s right to take risks with their health,’ say authors Dr Carwyn Hooper and John Spicer of The Division of Population Health and Education,

A more effective cross-section would be sidewalk, bike lane, parking, mixed traffic… Not sidewalk, parking, bike lane, mixed traffic…

Cape Town hipsters sweat ironically in post-cool heat wave CAPE TOWN. As temperatures soar in the Western Cape, Cape Town’s hipsters are struggling to keep cool in a “post-cool” world. According to the city’s hipsters, who are most commonly found clustered around a Vida e or leaning against a graffitied brick wall jamming on their

The City of Rustenburg, North West, is the next city on South Africa’s list to “get BRT” – a high-quality, integrated bus, pedestrian and cycling system. These are just some of the cyclists who’re set to benefit from a system that’s taking them into account

But still less than 0.5 percent of transport trips in SA cities are actually by bicycle. Our hope for 2012 and beyond, that Critical Mass can move from ‘cool’ to ‘normal’, ‘ordinary’ transport behavior.

By: Isyana Artharini on December 7th, 2011, http://www.climatemediapartnership.org Indonesia has ambitious plans to green dozens of its cities to help fight climate change. But these plans won’t affect the transport sector for more than a decade and experts warn this could create more environmental problems. When Indonesia pledged two years ago to reduce its emissions

Optimizing health in transport and climate change measures – new report identifies key strategies DURBAN – Rapid transit and safe cycling/walking networks are good for both health and climate – and climate experts should consider more systematically how these strategies can reduce CO2 emissions in the transport sector, one of the world’s major contributors to

These are great as the shape and size makes it possible to lock smaller or children’s bikes. This is what I’ll recommend to clients from now on…

November 16 2011 at 12:53pm nm cop bicycles 3 Tony Carnie – copyright The Mercury, txs to Brandon van Eeden for heads-up… When Fifa executives returned to Switzerland with their bulging swag bag of soccer loot last year, ordinary South Africans could at least take some comfort from the fact that the World Cup turned out to [...]

It would create jobs, boost tourism, transfer trail-building skills, improve road safety, encourage low-carbon travel, grow the local economy… There’s no down-side to the idea of turning the old Choo-Choo rail link into a rail-trail… But the idea is gaining little traction among the authorities… I think I’ll do some more investigating and keep you posted. [...]