Bicycle Mayor

Hi, I am Marcela Espíndola: Feminist militant, activist and urban cyclist. I have a degree in Social Communication, a diploma in Parliamentary Counseling as well as a diploma in Gender and Communication. In recent years

3 min read. Lucas Snaije is the Content & Communications Manager for BYCS and the editor of BYCS Perspectives.  For over 40 years, every Sunday and public holiday sees some of Bogota’s busiest streets radically

10 min read. Seble Samuel is an Ethiopian-Canadian geographer and storyteller. She works for the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) in East Africa and is the co-founder of Ethiopia’s

14 min read. Warren Logan serves as the Policy Director of Mobility and Interagency Relations for the Mayor’s Office of Oakland. Warren works closely with the City’s Department of Transportation, Public Works Department and other

10 min read. Marcela Guerrero Casas is the Co-Founder & former Managing Director of Open Streets Cape Town. She has worked in policy and advocacy for almost ten years in organisations including The Carter Center,

Mika is currently conducting his graduation internship at BYCS. He is in his final year of a sports management and business study in Amsterdam. His main interests lying with high performance sports, he is an

James has honed his creative (and car dodging) skills while cycling between international agencies in grand Amsterdam canal houses and dusty studios above a moped repair shops in Cape Town. Building brands, telling meaningful stories

13 min read. Joni Baboci is an architect, urban planner, and senior advisor for the Municipality of Tirana. He is the municipality’s former general director of urban planning and redevelopment, where he lead a team

7 min read. Angela van der Kloof is an experienced trainer, speaker, researcher and consultant at Mobycon. She is specialised in cycling planning, education, engagement, and explores the possibilities e-bikes and cargo bikes hold for

7 min read. Lanrick Bennett Jr. is the Managing Director of 880 Cities. Lanrick is an advocate for social programs and a year-round urban cyclist in Toronto who champions protected cycling infrastructure in multiple forms.

8 min read. Alex Baum is the Strategy and Impact Manager for BYCS. He is the lead researcher for the report “Cycling Cities for Toddlers, Infants & Caregivers”. Juventino Quiroz fondly remembers his father teaching

11 min read. Cecilia Vaca Jones is the Executive Director of the Bernard van Leer Foundation. Before she joined the Foundation, Cecilia was the Coordinating Minister of Social Development of Ecuador from 2013 to 2016,

Hi! I am Burçin Tarhan. I am working as a drama and theater instructor. I am 37 years old. I have been riding the bicycle for seven years and have been a cycling activist for

Chris Coyle was introduced to cycling through a Coventry council initiative at the local cycling track. A local cycling club spotted Chris racing and formally introduced him to world of cycling, from that day on

7 min read. Sonal Kulkarni is an architect and urban planner based in Bangalore, India. She is a director at UrbanMorph & leads Strategic Partnerships and Communications at the BYCS India Foundation. Sonal is a

3 min read. Lucas Snaije is the Content & Communications Manager for BYCS and the editor of BYCS Perspectives.  Since its invention in the early 19th century, the bicycle has become a tool that is

14 min read. Mariana Salvador is a lawyer, founder of Santa Fe in Bici, Bicycle Mayor of Santa Fe, Argentina and in charge of the “Ambiente en Bici” initiative of the Provincial Ministry for the

14 min read. Chris Bruntlett is the Communications Manager for the Dutch Cycling Embassy. He is a long time cycling campaigner and promoter in Vancouver, co-founder of Modacity & co-author the book, “Building the Cycling

11 min read. Dr. Adonia Lugo is an urban anthropologist and mobility justice strategist based in Los Angeles. She is also the Interim Chair of the MA in Urban Sustainability (USMA) at Antioch University Los

8 min read. Morten Kabell is an urbanist, currently the Co-CEO of the European Cyclists Federation. He was previously the CEO of bicycle design firm Copenhagenize, and was Copenhagen’s mayor for technical and environmental affairs”

Amsterdam, September 22nd, 2020 To mark World Car Free Day 2020, Lucas Snaije discusses the need to change our culture of urban transportation from one rooted in regimes of automobility to one where active mobility

My name is Sophia Philippidou and I am involved in the tourism industry in Loutraki. I have been cycling all my life. I strongly believe that cycling is the best solution for medium sized cities

How would you describe your mission? My mission is to make the use of bicycle a primary mode of transportation – the most frequently used method of transport for commuting to work, school, shopping, and

Namaste. I am Shail Shrestha. My journey in urban activism started as one of the founder members of youths lead, Kathmandu Cycle City 2020 campaign that started in 2009, with the aim to make Kathmandu

Hi, I’m Ana Isabel Idrovo, from Cuenca, Ecuador. I am passionate about cycling, and excited to be able to transmit and teach everything I know. Proactive and determined to meet my goals and objectives, I’m

Hi, I’m Cristian Sáenz De Viteri, from Guayaquil, Ecuador. I’m the CEO, Iguana Bike Tours, a professor at the University of Guayaquil and at the Metropolitan University, and an Ambassador for the Fundación Enseña Ecuador,

My name is Maarten Tjallingii – I was born in 1977 in Friesland and raised in Mozambique where I started riding my BMX around Maputo. I was brought up riding bikes, to school, to go

My name is Malav Dutta. I learnt cycling when I was 11 years old and started taking part in different cycling rallies and rides since 2017. I developed an interest in Mountain Biking in 2018

Bhavyank is a Grade 9 student in the city of Valsad, Gujarat. His idea of dedicating cycle lanes for cities won over the minds of the jury. He believes it would resolve multiple problems like

Susan Stokhof is the Bicycle Mayor of Victoria and the first in Canada and is focusing on the normalization of cycling in a region where sport and recreational cycling is the norm. Cities around the