Watching Barcelona's bike sharing system since 2007
El Periódico: ¿Casco? No, gracias: El ayuntamiento admite que el Bicing quedaría muy tocado y también se opone al nuevo código Los ciclistas rechazan la imposición de la DGT y reclaman más esfuerzo para evitar los accidentes
ECF: “The Pain in Spain: Revisited”: Spain is proposing some rather nasty legislation, which includes a compulsory helmet law. ECF’s Road Safety Officer, Ceri Woolsgrove, explains why this is bad news. “If I were looking to introduce cheap and easy laws to devastate cycling in a country …
About time! Sadly I don’t live in Eixample any more, but this would have made my commute to work much easier and safer two years ago. We need more of these bike lanes connecting the sea with the hills. bcn.cat: Work begins on extending C/ Girona’s bicycle lane: This week saw the start to …
The recent BACC survey results are in. The answers are not unexpected and reflect what is happening in other cities. Safety and theft are the number one problems. La Vanguardia: Los ciclistas de Barcelona sólo aceptan dejar la acera si no se ven expuestos al tráfico: "Nueve de cada diez (91,4%) …
via bcn.es - Traffic fatalities in the city drop by 20% : "While motorcycle- and moped-related accidents have dropped by 1% and 16% respectively, the number of bicycle-related accidents has risen, representing 3% of all vehicles involved in accidents. With more than 106,000 bicycle journeys made …
bcn.cat reports: The City Council is installing specific traffic lights for bikes in order to improve the safety of cyclists. These are smaller, lower and make use of LED technology. Now people just learn to stop at red lights.