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How to Learn to Ride a Bicycle in One Day

Cycling is becoming popular as more and more people start to reduce their CO2 emissions. If you want to learn how to ride a bicycle, I can help you learn on your own in one day. First, you need a bicycle and a spacious place to practice safely. Then follow the instructions below.

1) Grasp the handlebars and walk with the bike until you can steer it easily and stop it with the brakes.

This exercise helps you control the bike and operate the brake levers.

2) Lower the saddle until you can sit on it with both feet on the ground. While you sit on the saddle and hold on to the handlebars, walk with the bike at an increasing speed until you can lift both feet off the ground for several seconds.

This exercise helps you keep your balance on the saddle.

3) When you lift your feet off the ground, try putting your feet on the pedals and pedaling until you can ride with confidence.

This exercise is safe because you can stop the bike with the brakes and stabilize yourself by putting your feet on the ground.

Keep practicing until you master the art of riding. As a child, I learned to ride using a similar method. I am sure you can do it yourself.

California is moving full steam ahead to phasing out all sales of new fossil fuel cars in the state by 2035.

The new rule will “ensure that consumers can successfully replace their traditional combustion vehicles with new or used [zero-emission vehicles] and plug-in hybrids that meet their transportation needs"

As countries, cities and companies shift their strategies to longer-term recovery from short-term stabilization, there is significant work to be done to get the world on track for a resilient, net-zero future — and that means putting equitable, zero-emission mobility front and center.

EEA Urban environmental sustainability transitions survey

Do you work for a European city? Are you involved in your city’s efforts on environmental sustainability?

Fill in this survey on the drivers and the barriers of the sustainability transition in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic

How would you rank the bike lanes in your city? Do you use them?

Indeed, well-designed cycling networks can help cities obviate the need for so many private cars and the issues related to health, pollution, space and equity that arise with them.

According to WRI there are five key principles of safe bike lane design:

- Establish safe operational vehicle speeds for all urban streets
- Maintain a coherent network approach by integrating new bike lanes with any existing bicycle network
- Design bike lanes to prioritise safety for cyclists and pedestrians
- Provide ongoing communication and engagement at all stages of the design and implementation of safe bike lanes.
- Manage and enforce regulations to protect bike lanes from common types of infringement

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In Austria climate action revolutions public transport: fifteen years after it was first proposed, the new Klimaticket, or climate ticket, went live on October 26.

Offering seamless travel across all modes of public transport - for only 3 Euros per day - it is intended to galvanize the Alpine nation's fight against climate change.

"The Klimaticket Ö is more than just your ticket for all public transport. It is also the ticket with which we aim to reach the Paris climate goals together".

Good news for sustainable mobility! Will similar initiatives happen elsewhere?

Google Maps is to offer drivers the lowest carbon route for their chosen journey as part of the search company’s new environmentally friendly policies.
Motorists will be able to select the route with the lowest carbon emissions once factors such as traffic and road inclines are taken into account. The new product launches in the US on Wednesday and in Europe next year. Where the comparable journey times are broadly the same, Google Maps will default to the lowest carbon option.