Ice cream, Instagram stories, and bike repairs: we followed how the city of Brussels used the hosting of the first days of the Tour de France to put its daily cyclists on a pedestal. The campaign #TourEnsemble thought of all kinds of inspiring ways to promote cycling in the city.
As the days get longer and warmer across the northern hemisphere, and spring is officially here, we’re taking the opportunity to look back at some of the innovations in winter biking we saw this year.
A common myth is that taking away car space in order to make room for pedestrians or bikes will damage local business. Yet again, the most recent numbers from Madrid — the latest city to remove cars from its city centre — disprove this notion.
Sherbrooke Street received a temporary, protected bike lane segment to help showcase a more life-sized, bicycle-friendly vision for the future of the busy arterial.
Not all cities are cargo bike nations like Copenhagen, but many are re-discovering this unique bicycle. In Brussels, out of the window of our co-working space, our local team caught glimpses of an increasing number of them.
Politicians from France’s leading cycling city attended talks on the history of Danish bicycle planning and tried out Copenhagen’s best-practice bicycle infrastructure for themselves.
