CBC article on Halifax's "bike mayor":
Halifax's bike mayor reflects on end of 3-year term
I can't say that I was acutely aware that this was a thing, a bicycle mayor. At first I thought it odd that an organization from Amsterdam was advocating for things in Canada, but it sounds like they are trying to plant the seed worldwide. Good for them, I hope it brings some bicycle awareness to other countries.
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The position is part of an initiative by a global organization based in Amsterdam that advocates for bicycle culture in cities around the world.
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Can you talk about the organization that brings bicycle mayors to cities?
It's this cool social enterprise in Amsterdam and they're called BYCS. It doesn't stand for anything and they initiated this bicycle mayor network about five years ago.
Now I think there's maybe 120 or 140 bicycle mayors around the world —people like me working in their own cities to look at what are the important issues to try to talk about [and how] to get more people on bikes for transportation.
We just meet with the folks at BYCS whenever and they let us run and they just support us as much as we need.
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