Cycling News

Here's a posting of near daily cycling news from across the country, and sometimes interesting things from around the world. If I missed a worthy piece, please pass it on to me.

Local

• Bike Parking Facilities Coming to Toronto and NYC (Carectomy, Jan 30)
• Charity gives city clogged arteries, Ford says (Toronto Sun, Feb 1)
  Rob Ford is showing his hate-on for cyclists yet again -- now he wants to stop the big rides in Toronto, Like Ride for Heart (Sunday June 1st)

Regional

• Parked bicycle mistakenly sold (The Kingston Whig-Standard, Feb 1)

Canada

• What needs to change? (Calgary Herald, Feb 1)
  What a great idea! "- Allocating at least seven per cent of federal transportation infrastructure funding to facilitate walking and cycling."

Away

• A “Vision Zero” for New York? (Streetsblog, NYC, Feb 1)
• It's their party, but you can come if you want to (National Post, Feb 1)
  Bogota, Columbia, is a great place for a cyclist, I like the author's description of the place as a "cycling-mad nation"
• Where have all the kickstands gone? (Chicago Tribune, Jan 20)
• Power to the Pedal : Design an Accessory for the Bicycle (Dexigner, Feb 2)
• Good News For Pedestrians And Cyclists (FemaleFirst.co.uk, UK, Feb 2)
• 7-yr-old boy stripped, tortured for stealing bicycle (CNN-IBN, India, Feb 2)
• Bicycle thefts continue (The Rice Thresher, TX , Feb 1)
• 29 year old Stackle Monzanto charged for stealing a bicycle (LoveFM, Belize, Feb 1)
• Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition to Provide Free "Bike Valet" at Webcor King-of-the-Mountain Ride (FOXBusiness, CA, Feb 1)
• Zambia: Two Wheels Good, Four Wheels Bad in Chipata (AllAfrica.com, Fev 1)
• Radical bicycle activists (Orlando Sentinal, FL, Feb 1)
  In reference to the Orian article Send in the Clowns (Jan/Feb 2008)
• Cyclists bring business success to Pta city (Cycling News, South Africa, Feb 1)
• Cyclist, 62, died after wing mirror collision (Huddersfield Examiner, UK, )
• Cold doesn't deter tough cyclists (DesMoinesRegister.com, IA, Feb 1)
• 8th Annual Bicycle Film Festival Calls for Entries (Dirt Rag, PA, Feb 1) also here
  Any change we'll get a great Toronto made film in this year's batch? And how about next year?
• Injured Vic cyclist pleads for motorists to slow down (Liverpool Champion, Australia, Feb 1)
• Bicycle cut off police car (kjrh.com, OK, Jan 31)
• Backflip likely on controversial trains bicycle ban (The Age, Australia, Jan 21)
• City urges more bicycle racks (Gary Post Tribune, IN, Jan 21)
• Mercer students start bicycle loan program (Macon Telegraph, GA, Jan 21)
• The Point of Bike Paths (Washington Post, Jan 21)
• Grace Voss: Ensure safe passage for cyclists throughout Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz Sentinel, CA, Jan 20)
• Bicycle Safety (NBC6.net, FL, Jan 20)
• Hoy laments danger faced by cyclists (Scotsman, UK, Jan 19)
• Bicycle lanes aimed at cutting accidents (The Daily Yomiuri, Japan, Jan 19)
• London cyclists to go behind the bike sheds (BikeRadar.com, UK, Jan 20)
• To do: Help set bicycle, pedestrian needs on projects (St. Cloud Times, MN, Jan 20)
• Cyclists on a roll (ABC News, Australia, Jan 18)
• British Health Organization Puts Walkers and Cyclists First (Carectomy, Jan 30)