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Putting the best bike routes ‘on the map’

The Dynamic Connections Map. Image courtesy of BMW Guggenheim Lab. In 2011 I conducted a bicycle route options analysis in Australia for a public sector client who thought the number of options would...

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Are we overthinking cycling?

Image: copyright AECOM by David Lloyd. On his blog ‘Cycling in a broad church,’ @GregVann recently wrote, “Danes don’t consider themselves cyclists – just as they use vacuum cleaners, but don’t...

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What women want

Copyright AECOM photo by David Lloyd Last week my colleague sold her bike. She said if there was infrastructure where she lives — like the floating suspension bridge in Eindhoven, Netherlands, or the...

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Shower power

Dragon Lake Bridge Park, Bengbu, China. Copyright AECOM photo by Dixi Carrillo. Last weekend I met Australian Olympic gold-medal-winning swimmer Liesel Jones. I didn’t know who she was. We chatted...

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Cycle toward the Law of Attraction

Photo: Copyright AECOM by David Lloyd. I gave my best friend, Sarah, the book The Power for Christmas. Yesterday she emailed me saying that “if it only does one thing – to make me grateful with my lot...

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Who should lead cycling change?

Image: Copyright AECOM / Robb Williamson Last week Jamie Oliver launched his latest campaign: better, healthier and affordable fresh food for everyday Australians in a bid to tackle Australia’s obesity...

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“Slip & Slide”…and cycle?

Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images Last month almost 100,000 people registered to ‘Slip and Slide’ down Park Street in Bristol, UK. The 90-metre water slide – the brain child of living arts artist...

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