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The 20’s Plenty for Us Campaign (Video)

Roads in Residential Areas Should be Safe for All In residential areas, lowering the speed limit for cars not only reduces the number of accidents, injuries and deaths, but it also revitalises the neighborhood by encouraging more people to walk and bike. When people feel safe on the streets, they use greener forms of transportation more often. That’s the main argument of the 20’s Plenty for Us campaign in the UK, and looking at the results in areas where the 20 MPH speed limit was implemented, it looks like they a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The 20’s Plenty for Us Campaign (Video)

German Autobahn Closed for Gigantic Party – 1 Million Cyclists Celebrate

Image credit: Huffington Post From Manhattan’s Summer Streets to Bogota’s Ciclovia , TreeHugger is a big fan of reclaiming asphalt in favor of human interaction. But I’m not sure we’ve ever seen anything on this scale. A town in Germany recently shut down an entire section of Autobahn—that’s right, the famous German highways with no speed limit—… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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German Autobahn Closed for Gigantic Party – 1 Million Cyclists Celebrate