It is no secret that cycling provides health benefits, but it is amazing how just riding a bike to work offers extraordinary advantages. The Velo-city 2018 program will broadly focus on cycling as a tool for Happiness and Quality of Life. A session...

The ECF's Danish member Foreningen Frie Fugle is organizing an exiciting event for all those involved in the planning of cycle facilities on June 18-20, 2018 in Denmark. About the event The study trip will deal with planning of cycle facilities...

The European Commission has published a proposal for reforming the EU VAT system. The good news: Sales of conventional bikes could benefit from reduced or zero VAT in the future. The bad news: E-bikes are excluded and Member States would be obliged...

The year 2017 represents a breakthrough for cycling in Belarus and a great success for ECF's member Minsk Cycling Community (MCC)! As a result of great dedication to advocacy for cycling in the previous year, the country adopted the...

Construction works started on a new section of planned F212 cycle highway, next to the Zellik train station. When completed, F212 will connect the municipality of Asse (32 000 inhabitants) in the province of Flemish Brabant with Brussels. F212...

A freezing (-5°) Essen in the German Ruhr area has been the home of the third Cycle Highway Academy organized by the European CHIPS project. After an inspiring visit to London’s Cycle Superhighways where the second Cycle Highway Academy explored...

After last week’s article on women and cycling, we introduce another crucial topic which will be discussed during Velo-city 2018: bicycles as a tool for access and social inclusion. Rio de Janeiro will be the perfect stage for that purpose, as the...

Two years and a half  after the beginning of the Volkswagen emissions scandal, today Germany’s top Administrative Court backed environmental plans that may lead to a ban on diesel cars in cities. The judges refused to overturn lower court...

Within the next 15 years, rapid advances in information technologies are going to challenge traditional sectors in unimaginable ways, including the cycling industry. Will the sharing economy make bicycles available and free to everyone? Will...

If you ask any cyclist about cycling the first word that she or he will mention is FREEDOM. Velo-city 2018 builds on Velo-city 2017 Arnhem- Nijmegen ‘The Freedom of Cycling’, by taking another perspective: Access. Velo-city 2018 places access...

The sixth edition of the Winter Cycling Congress, held this year February 8-11 in Moscow, was the largest-ever gathering devoted to year-round cycling. Organized by the Russian cycling advocacy group Let’s bike it! together with the Winter Cycling...

Thursday 8th of March is the deadline for three interesting open consultations on three of the major EU Funding Instruments (in the area of strategic infrastructure, Cohesion and Research & Innovation) that we think would be of...