Paris city councillors recently voted to give the green light to cyclists to legally proceed through red lights in the French capital. The pilot program will be tested at 15 intersections in east end of Paris and if successful will roll out to 1,700 intersections across the city.

Cyclists must of course yield to pedestrians and oncoming traffic before proceeding through these designated intersections and would be held liable if they caused a collision.

Road diets featuring Dan Burden who came up with the phrase. A streets film production but Dan is a founder of the Walkable and Liveable Communities Institute at http://www.walklive.org/

Moving Beyond the Automobile: Road Diets from Streetfilms on Vimeo.

There is a group of cyclists who feel passionate encough about the need for the Holland St bridge to be reopened by Charles Sturt Council they've started a petition.

The Holland Street bridge has for many years provided a convenient, safe, car-free route for cyclists and pedestrians wishing to cross the River Torrens between South and Port Roads. It's untimely closure breaks an important link in a popular low-stress cycling route and necessitates a tedious and potentially hazardous detour involving some of Adelaide's busiest streets.

Our next edition of Pedal Update is being put together now. Do you have a cycling story to tell? We'd love you to share it with us and the membership. No story too short (or long) and if you've got some photos we can use them as well.

Perhaps you've been touring or seen some great cycling Utopia get writing and email editor@bisa.asn.au

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The Dutch Cycling Embassy website has much information for all on this site with a lot of research material on cycling infrastructure and we will endeavour in the future to post some of it onto the website. http://www.dutchcycling.nl/en/home

They have produced this excellent video produced and narrated by Amsterdamize 's Marc Van Woudenberg.

A Streetsfilms video on the US intiative of Cities for Cycling allowing city planners to learn from each others experience. It is always a good thing to minimize the mistakes made in other cities and councils and implement best practice. Hopefully it provokes some thought on planning principles and how different Adelaide councils and the State Government need to work together and learn from each other in implementing bicycle infrastructure.

Latest PRESS RELEASE on the Adelaide City Council web page.

http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/council/media-centre/media-releases/a...

It's great news, congratulations to all the stakeholders who worked hard to win the conference.

Interesting research on the building and use of bicycle highways in the Netherlands. According to the consultancy research done the following benefits flow from expenditure on this type of infrastructure. Adelaide's version is the greenway network but in reality they do not compare to the Netherlands version. The Netherlands have been perfecting these for a long time and their infrastructure design is taken seriously as part of the transportation mix to ease traffic congestion and make their citizens healthier.

A blog post first published on Adelaide Cyclists website by Bicycle Institute committee member Angus.

I will preface this by saying I didn't ride my bike to the Campbelltown Moonlight Markets. I was out dropping one son to Joeys before taking the other shopping where I saw the flyer.

Adelaide City Council is seeking volunteers to assist with this year’s Adelaide bicycle commuter census will take place on Tuesday 6 March 2012.

Volunteers will be required to be in place from 7am to 9am at each of the locations marked on the attached map (which shows the count numbers from the past two years).

Volunteers may nominate which intersection they would like to monitor, though priority will be given to those who nominated for last year’s counts.

If you are interested in helping Adelaide City Council with the counts, please contact Nick Nash and indicate which intersection you would like to monitor.