Carfree cyclists also uses more buses and cabs

A few months ago I hurted my ankle badly while I was doing a physical training. I didn’t feel much pain at the moment and went back home by bike. The next morning I had a tenis ball instead of an ankle and couldn’t even touch the floor with my foot. So I had to [...]

A critical mass ride on September 22th

This is a small video made last year during our ride on September 22th. It was our all-time record. More than four hundred people celebrating the streets. I hope it can be inspiring for the World Carfree Day 2009.

Thanks to Simone and Pinduca for doing such a great job.

Free Transportation Program

I work for a company that has more than a thousand employees. Approximately eight hundred of them are located in two buildings in the same neighbourhood only half a mile away from each other, and both really close to a bike path.
In 2007, when I noticed that more and more of my work colleagues were [...]

Bicycle Rickshaw at the Bus Terminal

Last year my cousin came to visit us from Brazil’s capital – the real one, Brasilia, the Federal Capital (and also the one that recently took the title of “most motorized city in Brazil” from Curitiba).
He told me beforehand that he was coming by bus on a weekday afternoon and that he would only spend [...]

Forgotten use of Streets

Each passing day it is more common to perceive the streets as obstacles – for traveling, resting, eating, meeting people, exercising, shopping – and ultimately living. After all, who wants to waste precious time in noisy, stinking and unsafe places like many urban streets? Not long ago it was different. The streets were not only [...]