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The Spanish Transport System

“Is there anyone who does not want a car?” 
This was the banner beside a new car displayed at the entrance of the old town pedestrian area of Santiago de Compostela last Christmas. This small city in the northwest of Spain has one hundred thousand inhabitants. It also has one hundred thousand cars entering the city [...]

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Briefly Noted: “Slow Motion: Stories About Walking”

Slow Motion: stories about walking is a collection of essays and interviews about walking in an increasingly autocentric society, this documentary project charts South African street life through the eyes of its pedestrians. The arrangement of the book is such that each piece can be read and enjoyed on its own, but the stories are [...]

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A Contemporary Art Exhibition About Bicycle Passion and Sustainable Transportation

Opening: 3 May 2011, 19:00
Gallery NTK, National Technical Library, Technická 6, Prague
4 May -24 May 2011
Curators: Lenka Kukurová (SK/CZ) & Milan Mikuláštík
The international exhibition Velocypedia will introduce works of artists, designers, and fans of cycling, inspired by the most known transport vehicle powered by human force – the bicycle. [...]

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“Ulysses Way”

The proof in picture of all that can be transported by bicycle! This year, the Armory Show, a week-long art exhibition held in March in New York City, included a bicycle.  A dishwasher, a dryer, a chair, a bucket, rolled-up blankets and other household items were stacked on an old Peugeot bicycle in a “towering [...]

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In Motion: The Experience of Travel

n his latest book, In Motion: The Experience of Travel, Tony Hiss poses a provocative challenge: Can we rethink the value we put on all the accumulated years of our lives we spend in transit, all the “wasted” time spent in-between the places we live and work and visit? As he did in his ground-breaking [...]

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Going Carless or Carfree?

In January, our 1995 Toyota Camry ended up in a scrap-it program. The salvage company that took the car is located in a wasteland of trashed automobiles, trucks and buses on the banks of the Fraser River in Surrey, British Columbia, a suburb of Vancouver. On the way home, our taxi driver said that many [...]

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Environmental Damage Caused by Illegally Scrapped Cars

 
Each year more than a million vehicles that have been taken off the road are being dealt with illegally. In a report by Clean Green Cars in November last year, it was revealed that more than half of cars taken off of the road may not have been de-polluted and recycled in accordance with European [...]

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The M4 Bus Lane

I rather let the announcement of the removal of the M4 bus lane pass without comment during the busy period, but with work commencing on painting over the lines, it seems a good moment to revisit the topic.  Because while the M4 bus lane was never a remotely important feature of the national or local [...]

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Hangzhou – View from the saddle of one of China’s most liveable cities

 While Paris and London hog the world’s media attention with Boris’ Bikes and the Velib, by some accounts the Chinese city of Hangzhou now boasts the world’s largest and most used public shared bicycle system. Rory McMullan, contributing editor, reports on his impressions of the city, its transport network and the public bike system from [...]

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Brazil: A Driver Hits Cyclists in Porto Alegre

Last Friday in Porto Alegre, a driver mowned down cyclists during a critical mass.  Please check below the news report from BBC. Carbusters wishes the quickest recovery to everyone injured in this incident. Feel free to post your comments.
“Brazilian police have been questioning a man accused of driving his car at high speed through a [...]