[Bikeboard] bike item - London Shifts Gears to Favor Bicycles

London Shifts Gears to Favor Bicycles

Armed with a proposal to develop 12 major "superhighways" for bicyclists throughout the city, along with a daily "congestion charge" of almost $50 for polluting vehicles, England's capital city is gearing up to become the world's newest bicycle utopia.

London's mayor hopes the programs will result in a 400 percent increase in the number of cyclists in the city by ...

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John Lozier "It's an UPHILL STRUGGLE to get folks to think of bikes as TRANSPORTATION"