Why so few bike parkings but motor cycle parkings are ubiquitous ?

Not everyone rides a U-Bike. Why can't the city make it mandatory that every few hundered meters there are a few parkings, specially in the city center ? One way could be that larger companies and public offices such as banks, post offices to place some racks. To be consistent, city should definea consistent parking design and make then easily identifiable from a distance. One idea is like this:

Bikes, Tunnels and Bridges

Now that there are are lots of bike lanes around the rivers and more people hop on a bike. Have there been any improvements for bike lanes in tunnel and bridges in and around Taipei. Is it just me or there has not been any changes in Taipei for over 25 years ? They are non existing, have bad lighting or just plain dnagerous for recreation and commuting. Send me email to taipeibiking@gmail.com about your ideas on this ?

It can be hard to remember now that until a decade ago almost nobody in Taiwan cycled

A new section of Taipei City bike path will open soon along the southern bank of Jingmei River (景美溪) CHECK THIS OUT. HERE

Safe accessible- roads are the biggest gift we can give our children

EURONEWS ARTICLE HERE

Ministers pledge increase in children's cycle training

ARTICLE form the UK HERE and HERE

Cycling Shorts: Up, around and away! (Country roads are easy, how about the cities?)

Wherever there was a section of the route that was not on a dedicated bicycle path, he felt intimidated by the cars and trucks. Article in Taipei times HERE And take a look at the commentsin the bottom as well. Is this not a kind of diverting the attention and money to try to improve the dangerous commuting that seems to be insovable by many generations of mayors in big cities to tourism ?

Taipei traffic light change duration too short ?

Always had a feeling that trffice light change too fast. Recently driving the car I felt it is getting even shorter. There is an article here HERE with some information. Even there is no rule, some say that it should be 1 second per 10 mile/hours for yellow to red. That would mean about 3 seconds. but in Taipei the time is often about 2.5 seconds from green to red ! It almost gives drivers no choice between stopping or keep driving because often the distance is not enough to safely break. Then not even talk about the time for bikers. So when you bike, follow the pedestrian traffic lights and not the ones for cars.