biking Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 00:45:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 The Space Between Bikes and Cars https://www.greenoptimistic.com/space-bikes-cars-20141011/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/space-bikes-cars-20141011/#respond Sun, 12 Oct 2014 00:34:42 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=49563 This week was big for the auto world with the Mondial de l’Automobile 2014, or the Paris Car Show starting this week and the unveiling of new cars and all. On the other side of the road, presumably 1.5m away, is the humble bicycle. It’s ironic that one of the biggest problems in the developing […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/space-bikes-cars-20141011/feed/ 0 49563 Swedish City Rents Bikes for Free to Make You Leave the Car Behind https://www.greenoptimistic.com/swedish-city-gives-free-bikes-make-leave-car-behind-20140524/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/swedish-city-gives-free-bikes-make-leave-car-behind-20140524/#comments Sat, 24 May 2014 10:55:51 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=47690 If you liked the news about Madrid offering electric bikes for rent to make people leave the car at home, wait until you read this. The Swedish city of Gothenburg is not wasting time with persuading people to pay for cycling. Instead, they are simply giving the bikes for free for a period of six months, […]

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