Sentences with phrase «urban bicycle use»

Cycling org British cycling normally serves the lycra crowd, but has nonetheless released a new report that promotes everyday urban bicycle use.

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Slava Menn, CEO of Fortified Bike, uses both apps often to manage production of his Boston company's bicycle products for urban commuters.

Priced from CDN$ 3,240, smart said its ebike is ideal for city use and blends an unconventional design with high technology standards to create a fun and functional urban transportation solutionthat offers the comfortof a power - assisted two - wheeler and the easy handling of a bicycle.

That money could be shifted to incentives for people to use their feet, bicycles, or smaller autos in their daily journies to work; incentives to make homes and workplaces more energy efficient; incentives to shift future land developments into in - fill projects rather than urban sprawl; and incentives to make cities more friendly to pedestrians and less friendly to cars.

Neither stepped up the plate to say: «We need to switch to higher density urban land use patterns, and encourage mass transit and bicycles».

And while this isn't the first urban farming project of its kind — it's actually based on a project developed by Curtis Stone in British Columbia, Canada — Grove says that the Orlando group has «tweaked Stone's design a bit to make Fleet Farming even more sustainable, adding the bicycle brigade and using more permaculture techniques.»

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Researchers in Barcelona compared the risks and benefits of bicycle travel using Barcelona's Bicing bike share with travel by car in an urban environment.

On a given day in Tokyo, the diverse array of people using bicycles here in this urban sprawl of 30 million souls includes: the middle - aged salary man riding to work on his fold - up bike in his business suit every day; the trendy adolescent skipping off to do some window shopping; the stay - at - home mother dropping not one, but two kids off at school; the pack of old men determined not to be late for their morning gate - ball contest; and, the serious cyclist kitted out in tight lycra and a fancy water - bottle pouch.

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«Figure 1 contains information on four environmental characteristics (land use, pedestrian location, light condition, and time of day and season) where / when pedestrian fatalities occurred in 2013: ■ More occurred in urban areas (73 %) than rural areas (27 %).1 ■ More occurred at non-intersections (69 %) than at intersections (20 %) for pedestrian location (10 % was other locations such as parking lanes / zones, bicycle lanes, shoulders / roadsides, sidewalks, medians / crossing islands, driveway accesses, shareduse paths / trails, non-trafficway areas, and other).

He says that companies like Bixi, which offers bicycle sharing, and AutoShare, which offers cars for short - term use, are making it easier to adopt the urban lifestyle.