Britain’s booming cycling economy made headlines this week with a 24 page report from the London School of Economics putting it in the spotlight. ECF Policy Officer Martti Tulenheimo comments on the news.

Artists, Dublin Cycling Campaign has one free Electric Picnic ticket up for grabs but you are going to need to do a little work for it! This year we will be creating our Bicycle Space in the Global Green area of Electric Picnic and expect to be engaging with lots of picnicers passing through over the weekend & chatting to them about our visions of truely bicycle friendly societies. We want to build on last year's activities and want to have more fun with passers by, so we plan to make a 'Head Through the Hole' cutout (also know as Comic Foreground, mugboard etc..) Basically the things that you associate with going to the beach in years gone by where you stick your head in a board and have your photo taken, example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/francesca911/5220617890/

The July-August issue of World Carfree Monthly news is out - read it directly here

• The Urban Repair Squad in Toronto, Canada has taken traffic calming in its own hands
• Buenos Aires, Argentina has just opened the first Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system
• In Russia, the defenders of Khimki forest (see April ACTION and May NEWS items) are planning new strategies to help save the forest from the bulldozer
• This year the Ecotopia bike tour will travel through Italy
• The tenth Towards Carfree Cities Conference will be held in Guadalajara, Mexico, from 5 to 9
• September
• Tirana, Albania has been having inspiring successes with a limited bike share system

Copenhagen’s Cycling Revolution - Free lunchtime seminar 

 Just to show that, in sharing the roads, there certainly are different strokes for different folks:

These succinct and useful rules from Minnesota don't require rear red lights for cyclists, do mandate for helmets, and laudably set out a 3-foot (90cm) overtaking clearance:

'Cycling in cities - Are we really serious?' Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin, June 20th, 7.00pm

Here are our main working groups, with contact details for who to get in touch with if you'd like to help out-

 Cool 5-minute video showing campaigners in London photographing everyday cyclists for the 'Like Riding a Bike' promo-