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Old vehicle scrappage program not just for cars in Deutschland

The popular German car scrapping scheme helped revive German car sales in the early part of 2009. The Germany city of Mannheim thinks that what's good for the four wheels is good for the two as well, and started a scrapping bonus plan for bicycles this past Saturday. It works like this: city residents can donate their old bikes, which must be in decent condition, to Biotopia, a group that helps disadvantaged youth and the unemployed. Biotopia refurbishes the bikes, and the donors get money if they show a receipt for a new bike that was ... Read more →

London will get 12 new bicycle lanes and "borough cycling zones" Sebastian Blanco

While car, truck and SUV (or, better said, car, lorry and 4x4) drivers in the UK are dealing with the new congestion charges that are coming to London, bicycle riders in the country can celebrate a ...

It's Friday: Fahrenheit 451's vision of the future includes very green transport Lascelles Linton

I'm not in favor of firefighters burning books but I really liked the vision of future transport in Ray Bradbury's scif-fi classic Fahrenheit 451. As you can see in the video above, Montag, a ...

Bike trends: chainless, brake less, retrodirect, illegal bike positions Lascelles Linton

Want to know the hottest trends in bikes? Well, you have come to the right place. The picture above is Dekra's "chainless" bike which replaces your standard noisy, greasy chain with a totally self ...

$612 million to walk or bike to school Sebastian Blanco

And you'd think walking would be free. Thanks to years of poor planning and an increasingly lazy (sorry, "busy") population, the U.S. federal government, through the Department of Transportation, is ...

Videos: bikes at AltWheels Boston 2007 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

There were a lot of cool bikes at AltWheels Boston 2007. The video above is all about the New Amsterdam Project (or NAP), a delivery service in Boston that uses bikes. NAP uses the same bike as the Royal Mail service, the largest fleet of bikes in the UK. The bikes are made by Cycles Maximus and ...

Jessica Alba drives Prius in Good Luck Chuck 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Smoking hot Jessica Alba drives a Prius. In a MTV Movie Awards acceptance speech, Jessica even suggested "practice safe sex and drive a hybrid if you can." Seems art imitates life because in her recent movie, Good Luck Chuck, her character drives a Prius as well. In the film, she gets a jump (Does ...

TomTom Rider, GPS for bikes 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

TomTom made the first GPS device designed just for bikes and scooters called TomTom Rider. GPS navigation is very green: There is nothing more un-green than getting lost and wasting fuel trying to find your way. Scooters and bikes are are also green and TomTom deserves the credit for bring the two ...


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