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Saturday, May 01, 2010

Bike friendly Bucharest?



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Sounds a bit dodgy but I like the idea in principal. Biking in a suit?

"Mentalities have to change in Romania about biking. Lots of people do not imagine you can go to work on a bike," said Maxim, who was also Romania's entrepreneur of the year in 2008.

Impeccably tailored men and women pedalled to work hoping the "business on a bike" scheme will change the image of cycling, but also encourage the municipality to build more bike lanes.

The Romanian capital's roads are far from biker-friendly, counting just 45 kilometres (28 miles) of cycle lanes in a city of two million inhabitants, compared to 500 kilometres (310 miles) in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam.

In 2008 the Romanian documentary "Apocalypse on Wheels" evoked the city's endless traffic jams and erratic car drivers.


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