On yer bike, today
The Resolution invited member states and all other relevant organisations to promote awareness of, and include cycling in regional and national policies and programmes, as a sustainable mobility system and a way of improving physical and mental health.
It also asked member states to ensure that road safety should be improved for cyclists, and integrated into planning and design of transport infrastructure.
European members of the UN recently created a task force to evaluate if bicycles can be 'drivers' of a post-Covid 'green recovery', in the process making general mobility more environmentally sound, health and sustainable.
Bicycles were introduced in Europe in the 19th century, with the first chain-driven 'Safety Bicycle' developed around 1885 by the Rover company which later became the car-building marque of the same name.
The World Bank says that there are more than two billion bicycles in use around the world. China is the biggest producer, with 'The Flying Pigeon' model the traditional and the most numerous in that country.
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