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Cyclists as pit canaries of a healthy city

Posted by volresource on 13 December, 2007

A nice little quote from the chief exec of London Cycling Campaign talking at the Climate Change march on Saturday (8th December). Not totally relevant to Malvern, but maybe Worcester:

“Cyclists are the pit canaries of a healthy city. This is why we dress in yellow. If cyclists disappear or keel over the city is sick. Automotive disease will already have destroyed the public realm – our shared spaces – and torn the social and physical fabric of the city apart”.

The speech as a whole is not a bad read (could have been trimmed a bit for a cold crowd, methinks).

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