Posts Tagged ‘bikes’

Carshare and bikes

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Go Get, Australia’s largest carshare company had a neat story in their latest newsletter.

The City of Sydney is helping to make carsharing even more convenient, by adding bicycle parking rings to some of the sign poles next to carshare pods.

So if you need to cycle to a  car that might be a little far to walk – say you want a car to shoot out shopping- you can lock up your bike while you drive out there.

You can then drop your new flatpacks, rugs, scented candles, and ergonomic pillows at home, and then return the car back to its pod, before cycling back home!

We’ve sent the idea to Auckland Council, so hopefully the new onstreet car park signs might have a bike ring! Did you see the brightly painted carshare space! COOL

 

Rush hour in the Netherlands

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Here is an amazing clip from CBS on what rushhour looks like in the Netherlands. I only saw one car!

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504784_162-20074094-10391705.html

Why the rich bike

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

 

We all know that a bike is an affordable way to move about and for this reason we might expect that it was the transport choice of those without a lot of ready cash.

However according to the Daily Mail, the bike is in fact becoming the transport method of choice for the rich, rather than those further down the earning ladder.

The article goes on, people on lower incomes may be more concerned with the need to earn money than worrying about what constitutes healthy living or about the issue of climate change and how cycling is the greenest option.”

We all know  London Mayor, Boris Johnson  and Prime Minister David Cameron cycle but the article also has pictures of Zara Philips (Princess Anne’s daughter) and even Penelope Cruz on their bike!

Cityhop has plenty of  members who bike and when they need a car they car share! You can live in the city without a car.