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Pedaling Toward Cleaner Cities
by Alison Raphael
"WASHINGTON - What single silver bullet can simultaneously reduce air
pollution and oil dependency, roll back urban congestion, and fight
obesity?
It’s not a pill, nor a complicated formula concocted by the World
Bank. People around the world are turning to bicycles by the millions,
as governments rush to create incentives for the low-tech transport
alternative to gas-glugging, smog-making, traffic jam-producing
automobiles.
Some 130 million bikes were produced worldwide in 2007 — more than
double the number of cars rolling off assembly lines (52 million)..."
More:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/14/8938/
Alas, it doesn't seem to apply to the UK though.
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Critical Mass London
http://www.criticalmasslondon.org.uk
"We aren't blocking traffic, we are traffic".
by Alison Raphael
"WASHINGTON - What single silver bullet can simultaneously reduce air
pollution and oil dependency, roll back urban congestion, and fight
obesity?
It’s not a pill, nor a complicated formula concocted by the World
Bank. People around the world are turning to bicycles by the millions,
as governments rush to create incentives for the low-tech transport
alternative to gas-glugging, smog-making, traffic jam-producing
automobiles.
Some 130 million bikes were produced worldwide in 2007 — more than
double the number of cars rolling off assembly lines (52 million)..."
More:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/14/8938/
Alas, it doesn't seem to apply to the UK though.
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Critical Mass London
http://www.criticalmasslondon.org.uk
"We aren't blocking traffic, we are traffic".