"In a a properly designed Traditional City, most people don’t need bicycles." --Energy Bulletin
"There is overwhelming evidence when children walk or cycle to school they are better off physically and in terms of their social and emotional wellbeing" --Todd Harper, VicHealth.
"A three hour bike ride means three hours of mental refreshment; it would take extreme concentration to achieve that by meditation or some like method." --Dave Moulton
"We have a wonderful network of over 25,000 miles of cycleways in the UK, with smooth tarmac and direct routes to the places we want to go. All we have to do is get the other people using those cycleways in their motor vehicles to do so safely and properly." -Regulator, Cyclechat [via @
John_the_Monkey]
"People often underestimate what you can carry on a bicycle" --PedalGR
"Slowing down to the urban biking pace reveals a city that many urban dwellers hadn't taken notice of, yet" --anonymous quote on London Cyclist.
"Cycling which was yesterday the fad of the few is to-day the pastime of the many; it has brought wealth to the wayside town and village, has given a new industry to the country, and by taking the place of more expensive forms of locomotion has facilitated in various ways the carrying on of trade." --The Lancet, July 11, 1896.
"Cycling is becoming a legitimate form of transport"--Tim Pallas, Minister for Roads and Ports, Victoria
"The experience was pretty revealing - it opened my eyes to the challenges that cyclists face, which are clearly significant...I wouldn't single out any particular group of motorists, but I saw behaviour ranging from the very courteous to that which was frightening." --Ian Craig, Managing Director of Lothian Buses.
"Cycling provides economic benefit in terms of improved public health, reduced levels of traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions, as well as reductions in expenditure on transport fuel. These benefits accrue most readily when the bicycle is used as a substitute for car journeys." --Cycling Promotion Fund