#8 Barcelona, Spain: Great Bicycle City Photo Tour
Oct/090
Naked bicyclists, folding bikes, balloon bikes, and more — enjoy this bicycle photo tour of Barcelona.
The third B in a row, Barcelona is next on this list of great bicycle cities (right ahead of Basel, Switzerland and Bogota, Columbia). As a dense city with a wonderful climate, Barcelona is naturally a wonderful place for bicyclists. However, a lot has been done to make it more so. The biggest carrot encouraging bicycling, by far, is Barcelona’s relatively new bike sharing program — Bicing. This is perhaps the best or second best bike sharing program in the world. It is one of a new generation of sophisticated, smart bike sharing programs. Read more about it on page 2.
Beyond Bicing, the city is also working on creating new bicycling routes and bike parking and it hosts fun Bike Week celebrations every year in May. Also, it has been creating better infrastructure for bicyclists due to so many more people bicycling (largely as a result of the Bicing program) in the past few years. It is transforming itself into a truly world-leading bicycle city.
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#8 Barcelona, Spain: Great Bicycle City Photo Tour
Two Endangered Blue Whales Struck by Ships
Oct/090
Earlier this week, an ocean survey vessel reported feeling a “shudder underneath the ship” in the waters of northern California. Soon after, a whale was spotted “bleeding profusely.” A few hours later, an endangered blue whale whale washed ashore in a rocky cove in California. According to reports, the apparent strike probably occurred about 7 miles from shore.
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Two Endangered Blue Whales Struck by Ships
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