Life is too short for traffic.

Dan Bellack

News

The high cost of accidents in Curitiba

A human life is priceless. But aiming to alert drivers and pedestrians of the risks of irresponsibility in the traffic, traffic agencies from all over the country usually calculate the costs of the accidents that happen in urban areas. And those can be frightening: up until September 2008 Curitiba spent over R$ 200 million on traffic accidents. (Now the complete translated version) read more

New videos added

Brazilian NGOs: ViaCiclo - SC and Rodas da Paz - DF
What world do we want? - Casa da Videira
Awareness Test
Critical Mass October / 2007
CicloAxion - Peruvian Group
Portland: Celebrating America’s Most Livable City (30 minutes)

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Urban space in Curitiba

Which is the best way to occupy the urban space?
What do you consider that needs to be present in every block of your city ?read more

Bike Pooling

Bikepooling is the practice of riding your bike in the company of at least one other cyclist. It is similar to carpooling, but usually each cyclist has their own bike. read more

An IDB program will probably benefit areas destined to cyclists

In the most popular neighborhoods it’s common to find poorly signalized parts of the bicycle paths, which makes it hard to the first time travelers. There are also parts of the bicycle paths squeezed in the sidewalks... read more

Portland, Oregon USA to Host World Carfree Conference this June

Portland, arguably America’s greenest city, will host the 2008 conference Towards Carfree Cities VIII: Rethinking Mobility, Rediscovering Proximity, from June 16-20, 2008. The conference will bring together activists and professionals from around the world to share strategies for building sustainable transportation systems and the transforming cities into human-scaled environments rich in public space and community life. read more

Traffic Crushing São Paulo

It turns out that traffic is not just about smog and asthma and wasting time sitting in traffic and economic slowdowns and all that fun stuff - it’s also about violence and destruction of property and road rage and robbery and pushing people towards nervous breakdowns. In short, traffic is anti-human. read more

US Presidential Candidates Ignoring Urban Issues

Despite the large number of Americans now living in cities, urban issues have been astonishingly absent from the U.S. presidential debates. read more

Bike There

You can help to show the Google Maps team that we really really want the ability to get bicycle route information via the main Google Maps interface. We can get driving directions for cars, we get can wonderful mass transit information, and now we want the ultimate in sustainability and self-reliance and exercise and healthy living - bicycle route information... read more

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Curitiba Cycle-paths

The shared cycle-path of the Passeio Publico had a few problems, but today... read more

3rd IPPUC Meeting - March 12th

We were on the third meeting of the Curitiba Mobility Plan (PlanMob) held in the Curitiba Institute of Urban Research and Planning (IPPUC). This plan will be soon dispatched for approval in the City Hall of Curitiba (CMC). Read more

Campaign: Bike-friendly Business

In Curitiba, local authorities didn't build any bike parking facility close to traffic-generating sites like schools, restaurants, shops, office buildings, universities or any other places except for the ones created for recreational use in parks or near a few bus stations (which are both inadequate, they stay in an open area and without surveillance. See some examples: Terminal Campina do Siqueira - Parque Tanguá - Terminal do Cabral).

So, to help cyclists to get around, we created a campaign called: Estabelecimento amigo da bicicleta(bike-friendly business) to identify places that already are, in some way, bike-friendly. These places will receive a stamp and will be listed in our official guide.

We will also contact other places to show how easy it is to become bike-friendly and how good this will be to their business and to the city.