Hi,
I'm really not sure how to frame this question but here goes!
I'm looking for some of the best recent exemplars of cycling cities
- particularly cities that started off not very cycle friendly
- that are now good exemplars of a cycling city.
I'm really trying to understand the processes by which they came to be a cycling city, from things as diverse as protest and bike user groups to such things as the ways in which local government helped/hindered them and what changes made them better.
Sorry, this is a big ask. I'm looking quite closely at the moment at Portland and New York, but really would like to find good examples in the UK and Europe. A bonus would be if you are in contact with people involved and could suggest contacts.
I'm asking this because at the moment we are in quite significant engagement with the Scottish Government on cycling after a very successful protest - the biggest organised in Scotland. I feel we need some good illustrations of just what can happen to fire the imagination, but also we need to understand just where the barriers and opportunities are, politically and logistically, and how they were overcame.
alan munro
http://pedalonparliament.org/
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