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Londoners Come Out To Support Safe Cycling
The skies were grey, a cold wind blew and the rain came down all day. And yet some 10,000 people joined "The Big Ride" by the London Cycling Campaign - the culmination of their Go Dutch campaign - to demand that London's streets are made as safe for cycling as those in Holland.The view from the starting stage - truly...[read more]
4 Ways to Make London a Cycling City
London is gearing up for its next Mayoral election in May 2012, and the city’s cycling facilities will be an inevitable topic of debate. Hoping to take advantage of this potential change in London’s politics, the London Cycling Campaign will be running a single-issue campaign, handing over the decision to their members as to which issue...[read more]
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“I agree I think that the nature of human interaction and involvement depends on the nature of the actual facility itself. Getting people in and around fossil fuel burning power plants is seen as a security risk, but that still leaves many components of our infrastructure that could benefit from being noticed (and that citizens could benefit from noticing). I think of examples like John ...”
“I thinks it's provocative. In Florida, we were given tours of muncipal water treatment facilities as children, less so access to energy facilities. There is a cogeneration facility at MIT that sits comfortably in the urban context, as thousands pass by daily. But I'm always concerned that critical systems and humans should not mix for the most part. Educational programs may make the same point ...”