That’s my mayor!
Nice article about a local Canadian mayor trying to make his neighbourhood a nice place to be as opposed to a rat run for commuters…
LUC FERRANDEZ’S last bicycle was a Kona, a sturdy model with thick tires, ideal for hauling heavy loads. During his 2009 campaign as the Projet Montréal candidate for the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough, he would hook it to a trailer piled with a laptop, a projector, a collapsible screen, and (this being Montreal) a couple of bottles of rosé. After setting up his equipment next to a café terrace or a depanneur, he would distribute paper cups and launch a PowerPoint slide show of streets and squares in Copenhagen, Paris, and Madrid, as well as historical photos of local boulevards, all unencumbered by traffic. He figures it was these partys de trottoir, or sidewalk parties — during which he made the case that Montreal could be as clean, green, and safe as any place in Europe — that won him the mayoralty of the city’s most populous district.
Peer-to-peer renting services focus on specific stuff and commodities. TakeSpinlister, a fresh initiative from Los Angeles that enables people to earn a little extra money by renting out their bicycle. Besides offering cheap bicycle renting opportunities in any city in the world, Spinlister also connects the worldwide bicycle riders community. Even for renting luxury recreational vehicles such as boats, sport cars and even planes there is an online peer-to-peer marketplace called Qraft. In addition, Campinmygarden offers private gardens as micro campsites. Parkcirca does the same for parking spaces in crowded cities.
Mmm camp in my garden sounds nice. :)
Whose bike culture outdoes Copenhagen’s? Denmark, meet China.
(Thanks to my good friend John Ferry for the picture)
(Source: novemberschopin)
Innovative Bike Rack in Aalborg, Denmark from Copenhagenize
Double decker bike rack — Montreal needs this just to keep bikes safe from kamikazi sidewalk snowploughs
(Source: gardenplanter.org)
