Brisbane's Citycycle Scheme

Cyclists prowl the streets of London knowing that they cause problems to other motorists since a cycle is the least protected on the roads. No helmets, no florescent clothing, this is what makes cyclists not welcome in this city. According to the Department of Transport 24 out of 112 road accidents in 2008 were cyclists. This just shows the threat that cyclists can pose to other motorists in central London. The deaths of cyclists increases each year, this shows how vital it is to put all cyclists in Room 101.

years decisions for Bikes Bikes Bikes, which have resulted in both negative and positive impacts.

Public transportation provides numerous positive attributes to the community at large. It enhances personal opportunities by providing personal mobility and freedom, gives people transportation options to get to work, go to school, visit friends, or go to a doctor’s office, provides access to job opportunities. It saves fuel and reduces congestion, provides economic opportunities and drives community growth and revitalization. Statistically, every $1 invested in public transportation generates approximately $4 in economic returns, every $10 million in capital investment in public transportation yields $30 million in increased business sales, every $10 million in operating investment yields $32 million in increased business sales, and from 2006-2011, residential property values performed 42 percent better on average if they were located near public transportation with high-frequency service. Public transportation saves money and reduces gasoline consumption. According to APTA’s transit saving report, a two-person household can save, on the average, more than $10,174 a year by downsizing to one car. Public transportation use in the United States saves 4.2 billion gallons of gasoline annually and households near public transit drive an average of 4,400 fewer miles than households with no access to public transit. Public transportation also reduces the carbon footprint in that its use

For a lot of us, we’ve lost sight of this innate need to explore the unexplored. As work, school, family, social life and everything else that drives our days continues to pull us in every direction, it’s hard to remember the last time we were able to experience something so pure. For Jimmy, he’s managed to marry these stresses into his pride and joy, the Boise Bicycle Project. As Boise’s community-oriented, non-profit promoting the personal, social and environmental benefits of bicycling, BBP functions as “a bicycle recycling center as well as an educational workspace in a diverse and non-threatening atmosphere. Through education and access to affordable refurbished bicycles BBP strives to build a stronger bicycling community.”

It is never easy to do good for the society. It comes with many complications. Money, effort, oppositions. It is never easy and especially to do it in New york city, the centre of all economic opportunities, just makes it even more difficult. It all started in 2006, under the leadership of former mayor, Michael Bloomberg, when “the city planning department conducted a survey of city bicycle commuters and recreational cyclists in 2006”( Lyon 4) to see the feasibility of NYC city bike share program. The main intention or rather the main motive for introducing a bike share program was to “maximise efficiency of existing mass

Additionally, the Australian government should also take steps to avoid the usage of personal vehicles by the people. The subsidies on personal vehicles should be stopped on an immediate basis to encourage the people to use public transport (Hodge et al., 2008). As a result of this, the people are more likely to walk from one place to another through the public transport vehicle instead of sitting in their vehicle from home with no scope of physical work (Randolph and Viswanath,

Since this data was recorded during the early and late morning, cars are supposedly more likely to be seen, as residents were heading to work. Furthermore both Roads are commonly used by residents of Brisbane as they connect to Gateway Motorway, which is considered one of the most busiest roads Brisbane. In both surveys, buses are in second of most vehicles during the day, as majority of trucks that travel pass these roads to return back to their companies or delivering to buyers. Only seeing motorbikes once on each trip, it is the third most common form of vehicle in the Mansfield Community. Motorbikes are only seen once perhaps, since most residents of Mansfield are families so they wouldn’t need to buy one seated vehicle. Having last place tied between the buses and pushbikes. Perhaps the public buses weren’t seen travelling by due to its timetable and our timetable. In contrast the number of pushbikes encountered during our survey suggests that Mansfield residents are unhealthy or most pushbike riders are at work which decreases the likelihood of spotting

When there are more bikes around, people drive safe and when there are more bikes around, people drive safer and are aware of them. The more bicyclists we see, the safer the roads are going to be for them. I think Manhattan should be doing everything it can to encourage people to bike safe and make the city a safer place to bike

This article I read in the Science Times is called “Cycling 101 Needn’t Be a Collision Course.” Cycling, believe it or not, can be considered a very dangerous sport. When it comes to bike-related injuries, the United States has the greatest count. Overall, in recent studies, there has been a great percentage increase in the injuries resulting from cycling. The injuries from arms and legs have went down considerably. But, fatalities to the head and torso have increased. The lead author of the study of cycling states how roadways and streets could potentially be safer if there were more cyclists. He says this because he believes injuries will decrease if cyclists travelled in numbers. Other countries, excluding the US, are considerably safer

Bike riding is one thing every child looks forward to during the summer as well as riding them to school. When I was, younger and rode my bike, I could ride till it started to get dark out, then I had to go home and put my bike away. I didn’t have to have a helmet on when I rode my bike around, today children must have helmets so they don’t fall and bust their heads open. A bike needs to have the regulation reflectors on the front and back so people can see you if you are riding in the dark. Also, you could ride your bike on the sidewalk to be safe, but now you must ride in the bike zone. “Children fifteen and younger are the ones accounted for nine percent of all the pedal cyclists killed and the twenty percent of all the ones that are injured in traffic crashes in 2012” (U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,

1. As a motorist, are there any concerns when factoring in cyclists on Australian roads?

Amy Westervelt article “Bike-Sharing Grows Up: New Revenue Models Turn a Nice Idea Into Good Business” explains how the bike –sharing program started and grew into a dependent, and steady business that became global. In the story there is a failure in the small town of Ojai, California when starting up a bike-sharing program due to how it was handled. At the time there many other small towns in the United States that also ran unsuccessful bike sharing programs. Many years later there was a relaunch in Paris that end up being successful, from having cool bikes, better placement for them and reasonable pricing; therefor the US had a trial run at the Democratic convention in Denver in 2008. Washington, D.C. flourished so much that it became

The author constructs the argument in this passage by explaining what the bike-sharing program is first, by doing so it intrigues the reader to the benefits of the program. The author talks about how New York City uses the bike-share system, then explains how the bike-share system is used around the world by bringing up the statics in Paris, France. The average amount of rentals each day in Paris is 75,000 per day and survies have taken place to determine the percent benefit.

For instance, areas with safety concerns can discourage physical activity while areas with good pedestal connection can encourage more walking and bicycling for transportation. In terms of choice of food, poor and minority communities may not have equal access to the variety of healthy food choices available when compared to wealthy communities. (K. Morland, S. Wing, A. Diez-Roux, C. Poole, 2002) The built environment consist of urban design factors, land use, and available public transportation for a region, as well as the available activity options for people within that space (S.L. Handy, M.G. Boarnet, R. Ewing, R.E. Killingsworth, 2002). Promoting physical activity is of public health importance because of its health benefits. According to Bize, Johnson, Plotnikoff (2007), physical inactivity is associated with increased risks of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other chronic diseases. However, interest to participate in

a. You’re sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic already late for god knows what, the over bearing smell of car exhaust is literally killing you and overall you feel trapped. Not to mention you’re a little overweight and all you want is Jimmy Johns. You then look out your window and what do you see? You see a human riding their bike through the traffic and their going faster then you could even imagine. Don’t you wish you could be that person on the bike and escape this traffic jam? Well you CAN!