Institute for Transportation and Development Policy

12/29/2003 While other cities around the world are promoting bicycle use to combat air pollution and congestion, Shanghai--a city with nine million cyclists--is banning them to make room for its increasing number of private cars.

12/02/2003

Biking for AIDS

To demonstrate the importance of providing rural health workers with sustainable transportation to care for AIDS patients scattered in rural areas--and raise public awareness about the disease--a New York-based NGO co-sponsored month-long AIDS bike rides throughout Ghana, and donated 10 new bikes to the Health Ministry.

04/28/2003 Pedestrians, cyclists and rollerbladers took control of the streets of Quito yesterday, as Ecuador became the latest country to promote the "Car-Free Sunday" trend already taking hold in several Latin American and European cities.