We at TreeHugger have written before on the possible
reasons city biking is still predominantly male.
Not exact matches
The
City Council voted Thursday to ban all motorized
bikes and dirt
bikes unless used for health
reasons.
Aside from the financial and environmental upsides of
biking, a big
reason many people ride is to get in shape, and what better place to do that than the hilliest
city in America?
We're consistently ranked in the downtown top three Portland hotels on TripAdvisor, and for good
reason — our cozy salon - style lobby, complimentary WiFi and
bikes, spacious guest rooms, and the
city's best hosted wine hour.
There are many, many
reasons to use public transit, and to build our
cities to be friendly to
bikes and pedestrians.
In a
city where
bike theft is a very good
reason to make you doubt about riding somewhere, providing parking facilities is almost as important as creating new
bike paths.
With so many
reasons why
biking is advantageous for people and planet, it's still been incredible to see how an emerging
bike culture is blossoming in
cities and communities all over the world — making it a bit more understandable why someone might want to preserve their beloved ride on the wall for posterity.
The picture above was a poster seen across the
city last spring bearing the message: «You are safer on the
bike than on the couch... Public Health Copenhagen hopes to place focus on the fact that there are very good
reasons to ride a bicycle each day and we would like to highlight that Copenhageners already cycle 1.2 million km each day.»
However, from massive investments in
bike superhighways to Oslo excluding cars from the
city center, there's actually good
reason to hope that the EV transition is just the tip of a much greener, cooler (sorry!)
Choosing to get around the
city on
bike — whether you are going to work or to the park — is attractive for many
reasons, but it is important to always follow safety procedures when ditching your car for a
bike.
Some
city officials believe that part of the
reason bike accident deaths have increased is that there are simply more people riding in the
city compared to several years ago.