[bikeqld] Fwd: Re: [LotsLessCars] 2010: The Year of the Woman in Transport

[Michael Yeates]

Of interest?

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>Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 14:50:00 -0700
>Subject: Re: [LotsLessCars] 2010: The Year of the Woman in Transport
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>Hi, Eric-
>Transportation has an image problem among women. 
>It needs a PR campaign. I've been involved in 
>the Cycle Chic movement for more than a year 
>now. It is one of the single most effective ways 
>to convince women to try cycling long enough to 
>feel comfortable doing it: make riding a bicycle 
>fashionable. Copenhagen, where everyone bikes, 
>launched the movement. My parisienne girlfriends 
>are slowly becoming comfortable biking due to 
>the pervasiveness and ease of the Velib' 
>program. Here in San Francisco, Cycle Chic has 
>certainly become trendy -- I see women biking in 
>dresses all the time now whereas before it was 
>mostly skater punks (boys) on fixies.
>
>Do you (and members of the lists) have other 
>ideas for promoting cycling among women as a 
>viable form of transportation? How can we make 
>the Cycle Chic movement more effective?
>
>(I've been a utilitarian cyclist since the early 
>'90s but now I dress up to ride my bike across 
>town. The movement worked on me in reverse.)
>
>Thanks for all you do!
>Lilia
><http://liliapilia.blogspot.com/search/label/Cycle%20Chic>http://liliapilia.blogspot.com/search/label/Cycle%20Chic
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>On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Eric Britton 
><<mailto:eric.britton at ecoplan.org>eric.britton at ecoplan.org> wrote:
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>In this piece the editor of World Streets goes 
>out on a limb and proposes not only that the 
>year 2010 should be formally 
><http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kbTo-M_pSuw/Sp6TvyOpa_I/AAAAAAAABhA/laOKmEEZzk8/s1600-h/ws-janes-eyes-4.jpg>nominated 
>as "The Year of the Woman in Transportation" but 
>also that something resembling gender parity be 
>established at least as high profile examples in 
>as many places as possible – DURING THE YEAR. 
>(But there is plenty of room for you to make your voice heard too.)
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>Admit it. We have made a right mess of our transportation arrangements.
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>--> Full text of this article appears today in 
><http://newmobilityagenda.blogspot.com/>World 
>Streets at <http://WorldStreets.org/>http://WorldStreets.org/
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>--> To read all World Streets articles on 
>politics  click to 
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