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The Bicycle Culture Around the World Remember those childhood days when your dad bought you a cycle, and you learnt to ride without falling. After several attempts you got it right, and rode with your friends to school and back home, wasn’t that feeling overwhelming? As we grow up we tend to forget that cycling was such a healthy and viable option, and we switch to motorcycles and fancy cars. When our roads are clogged with cars and pollution hampering the environment, cycling should be made part of this modern culture, in fact it already is in several cities around the world. A bicycle is a cheap mode of transport, environment-friendly, and an excellent way of exercising those weary muscles. So I did some research to bring to you vivid facts of the cycling culture adopted by few countries. Copenhagen, the Striving Bike Culture The first example that comes to mind is Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark and one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the world. Every day 500,000 people ride their bicycle to work or school, яMap бaйHa 36% of the population who choose to cycle. No wonder Copenhagen is known as one of the cities with the best quality of life, less pollution, more greenery, proper bike lanes so people would at least feel like switching to a cycle to ride to work. AMcTepдaM, the Bike Capital of the World AMcTepдaM, the bike capital of the world, lets leave aside the other things its known for:), where everyone is on a bike, from a guy dressed in a suit to a woman going for a party, riding a cycle is embedded in their system, its a way of life! Bicycles are modified to fit their requirements or more number of people, as you can see the picture below. Its wonderful to see people ride their cycles no matter how they are dressed, without a helmet, and even the senior citizens ride a cycle, mothers carry their toddlers on bikes, wish we could emulate this culture in Mumbai instead of following all the bad westernised aspects. Trondheim, Innovative Bicycle Lift Trondheim, a city in Norway, has done something innovative to get more people to use bikes. The city introduced bicycle lift called Trampe, the only one in the world, which gets the biker to the top of a very steep hill without peddling. I don’t think such mechanism is to discourage people from exercising, but just cater to people who are tired after a hard day’s work and don’t want to cycle uphill. It works in a simple manner, the right foot has to be placed in the footplate while the left leg is on the cycle pedal, and the lift pushes you up the hill. The person using it needs to buy a electronic keycard for the lift to start moving. As you can see in the image below, it hardly occupies any space on the road, since its underground. This bicycle lift is indeed very popular among students. Free Bikes to All There are few more cities which are bicycle-friendly as well, like Portland, Oregon in the USA, they had an interesting program, Create a Commuter, whereby low-income adults were provided with bicycle for unrestricted use. Such programs encourage the use of cycles. Even some parts of Netherlands and other places like Helsinki and Copenhagen have a plan that gives free bicycles to use for one trip and then left for someone else at specific junction. It did lead to theft, so it exists only at few places. Other Bike-friendly Cities - Boulder, Colorado, USA - Davis, California, USA - Sandnes, Norway - San Francisco, California - Berlin, Germany - Barcelona, ИcпaHи - Basel, Switzerland Let’s push ourselves and others to use bicycles, the best mode of transport and no CO2 emissions either, for a smoke-free environment. It might be a far-fetched thought, but we can always take the first step. ЗyprийH эx cypBaлж: Copenhagenize: Life in the World’s Cycling Capital Taйлбapyyд Hb Don’t leave out Ciclopaseo, a bicycle movement taking fire all across Latin America in which traffic is shut down on Sundays in downtown areas in a growing number of cities from Quito, Equador, to Mexico City to make room for tens of thousands of people on bikes in a festival setting of bicycle races, bike theater and just riding around and interacting with fellow citizens. The movement teaches people about bikes and promotes bicycle and pedestrian friendly transformation of the cities. In Quito, women in particular were encouraged by CiclóPolis activists to bicycle as part of the movement. Mexico City just added 3,000 more bicycles to its ‘EcoBike’ rental bicycle program. Activists tired of waiting for bicycle lanes have started painting their own ‘WikiLanes’, an initiative being followed in other Latin American cities, while mass nighttime bike rides have caught on in the Mexican cities of Saltillo, Tijuana and Chihuahua. In Wisconsin, the first state in the United States to convert an abandoned rail line to the so-called ‘rails to trail’ we can ride bike trails built on or along railroad right-of-way east-west two hundred miles across the entire state from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River and from the capital city down into Illinois. Many old passenger train stations have been converted into bicycle way stations, some with showers and supply shops, and there are campgrounds and bed and breakfasts along the way. The rails-to-trails, which are now found all over the country, serve the double role of providing thoroughfares for bikes between and through cities while preserving rail right-of-ways for future conversion back to rail lines as the availability of petroleum declines in coming decades.
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Bicikl kulture Around the World Ne zaboravite one dane djetinjstva kada ti je tata kupio ciklus, a ti naučio da voze bez pada. Nakon nekoliko pokušaja da ste dobili to pravo, i jahao sa svojim prijateljima u školu i natrag kući, nije taj osjećaj ogromna? Kao što smo odrasti smo skloni zaboraviti da je biciklizam je tako zdrava i održiva opcija, i mi smo se prebacili na motocikle i fancy automobila. Kada su naši putevi su zakrčene automobilima i zagađenje ometaju okolinu, biciklizam treba dio ove moderne kulture, U stvari, to je već u nekoliko gradova širom svijeta. Bicikl je jeftin način transporta, okoliš-friendly, i odličan način ostvarivanja tih umorne mišiće. Tako da sam neka istraživanja kako bi vam živopisne činjenice biciklističke kulture usvojila nekoliko zemalja. Kopenhagen, težnja Bike kulture Prvi primjer koji mi pada na pamet je Kopenhagenu, glavnom gradu Danske i jedan od najviše bicikl-friendly gradova u svijetu. Svaki dan 500,000 ljudi voze bicikl na poslu ili u školi, što je 36% stanovništva koji su odlučili da ciklus. Nije ni čudo Copenhagen je poznat kao jedan od gradova sa najboljim kvalitetom života, manje zagađenja, više zelenila, odgovarajuće trake bicikl kako bi ljudi barem osjeća kao prebacivanja na ciklus za vožnju na posao. Amsterdam, Bike Capital of the World Amsterdam, bicikl kapitala u svijetu, nadamo se da ostavimo po strani druge stvari svojim poznat:), gde su svi na biciklu, od momka obučen u odijelo sa ženom ide za stranku, jahanje ciklus je ugrađen u njihov sistem, njen način života! Bicikli su modificirani da odgovaraju njihovim zahtjevima ili više broj ljudi, kao što možete vidjeti na slici ispod. Njegova divno videti ljude voze ciklusa bez obzira na to kako su obučeni, bez kacige, pa čak i stariji građani voziti ciklusa, majke nose svoje mala djeca na biciklima, bih da možemo oponašati ove kulture u Mumbai umjesto sljedećih sve loše aspekte zapadnjačkim. Trondheim, Inovativni Bicycle Lift Trondheim, grad u Norveškoj, je učinio nešto inovativno da se više ljudi da koriste bicikle. Grad uveo bicikla lift zove Trampe, jedina na svijetu, koja dobija biker na vrh vrlo strmo brdo bez prodavao. Ne mislim, kao što mehanizma je da odvratiti ljude od ostvarivanja, ali samo razonoditi za ljude koji su umorni nakon napornog radnog dana i ne žele da se ciklus uzbrdo. Ona radi na jednostavan način, desne noge mora biti postavljen u footplate dok je lijeva noga je na ciklus pedalu, i lift te gura uzbrdo. Osoba koja koristi treba kupiti elektronske Keycard za lift za početak kreće. Kao što možete vidjeti na slici ispod, jedva zauzima svaki prostor na putu, od svog podzemnog. Ovaj bicikl lift je zaista vrlo popularan među učenicima. Free Bikes na All Postoji još nekoliko gradova koji su bicikl-friendly, kao i, kao što su Portland, Oregon u SAD-u, oni su imali zanimljiv program, Kreiraj Commuter, pri čemu niskim prihodima odraslih su dobili bicikl za neograničenu upotrebu. Takvi programi podstiče upotrebu ciklusa. Čak su i neki dijelovi Nizozemske i drugim mjestima kao što su Helsinki i Kopenhagen imaju plan koji daje besplatne bicikle će se koristiti za jedno putovanje, a zatim otišao za nekog drugog u određenim Junction. To je učinio u vodstvo od krađe, tako da postoji samo na nekoliko mjesta. Ostali Bike-friendly Gradovi - Oblutak, Kolorado, SAD - Davis, Kalifornija, SAD - Sandnes, Norveška - San Francisco, Kalifornija - Berlin, Njemačka - Barselona, Španija - Bazel, Švajcarska Hajde da gurnuti sebi i drugima da koriste bicikle, najbolji način transporta i bez emisija CO2 ni, za okolinu bez dima. To bi moglo biti nategnuto misli, ali možemo uvijek uzeti prvi korak. Image Source: Copenhagenize: Život u Svjetskom biciklistička Capital Komentari Nemojte izostaviti Ciclopaseo, bicikl pokret uzimanje požara diljem Latinske Amerike u kojoj je zatvorena saobraćaj se nedjeljom u centru područjima u sve većem broju gradova Quito, Ekvador, Mexico City da bi prostor za desetine hiljada ljudi na biciklima u festival okruženju biciklističkih utrka, bicikl pozorište i samo jahanje okolo i interakciju sa sugrađanima. Pokret uči ljude o bicikala i promovira bicikl i pješačke prijateljski transformacija gradova. U Quito, posebno žene su ohrabreni CiclóPolis aktivisti za bicikl kao dio pokreta. Mexico City upravo dodali 3,000 više bicikala svojim 'EcoBike’ bicikla program. Aktivisti umorio od čekanja za biciklističke staze su počeli slikao svoje 'WikiLanes', inicijativa prate u drugim latinoameričkim gradovima, dok je masovna noćne vožnje bicikla su uhvaćen na u meksičkoj gradovima Saltillo, Tijuana i Chihuahua. U Wisconsin, prva država u Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama pretvoriti napušteni pruge na tzv 'uloške na trag’ možemo voziti biciklističke staze izgrađene na ili duž pruge pravo-of-way istok-zapad dvjesto milja preko cijele države od jezera Michigan do rijeke Mississippi i od glavnog grada dolje u Illinois. Mnoge stare putnički željeznički kolodvori su pretvoreni u bicikl način stanice, neke s tuševima i trgovine napajanja, a tu su i kampova i noćenje i doručka usput. Šine-to-staze, koji se sada može naći širom zemlje, služe dvostruku ulogu pružanja saobraćajnica za bicikle između i kroz gradove uz očuvanje rail pravo-of-načina za buduće konverzije nazad na pruge kao dostupnost nafte pada u narednim decenijama.