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US bike biz benefits from advocacy support
Over the next five years, the US government is spending $5bn on bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. Not five million, five billion. This stunning state of affairs is partly due to the support the US bike industry extended to the US cycle advocacy movement. This cut-down podcast features interviews with Elizabeth Train of Bikes Belong and Andy Clarke of the League of American Bicyclists. The interviews were conducted at the Velo Mondial bicycle planning conference held in South Africa in Spring 2006. The full podcast can be found at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3733540053158149211

This videocast is from CYCLING: News and Views. You can subscribe to this podcast in iTunes, on RSS 2.0 or here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CyclingNewsAndViews

Author: Carlton Reid. Editor of http://www.bikebiz.com and http://www.bikeforall.net

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  • You belong in the Netherlands, where nearly everyone rides a bike. Belgium and Denmark are other good places. China used to be a big biking country, but, during the economic boom, the Chinese started driving cars in increasing numbers.

  • Wrong, he has been an avid mt. biker for years and years.

  • Bush rides a bike because he's a politician and it makes him look good.

    He should try riding across the mall to the Capitol and metro'ing over to the Pentagon.

    Bush & Co won't help public transportation.

    "Bike Paths and Bridges to Nowhere"

    brought to you by Military Industrial Congressional Complex.

    John Burke and Lance Armstrong I can get behind but lobby groups and Bush... no thanks.

    Let's ReCycle

    BikesNotBombs

  • ELECTRIC ASSIST???

  • bicycles are the most efficient method of transportation ever. i wish there were lobbying groups called "big pedestrian" and "big bicycles" and "big publictransportation." automobile dependency is disgusting socially, environmentally, psychologically. the sooner it is eradicated, the better.

  • Screw these guys. Giving money to congressmen? Give me a break! Bikes are TRANSPORTATION - not just recreation. Spend your dollars where cycling needs it.

    The bike scene in major metropolitan areas is basically a volunteer network of people who have decided to LIVE what you guys are paying congressmen to pass laws about.

    Screw this D.C. lobbying crap.

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