Foster + Partners’ smash it out of the park with their proposal for building a network of cycling corridors around/above London:

“SkyCycle is a lateral approach to finding space in a congested city,” says Foster. “By using the corridors above the suburban railways, we could create a world-class network of safe, car-free cycle routes that are ideally located for commuters.”

Brilliant.

via Twitter/tmkoo1

Peñalosa’s first and most defining act as mayor was to declare war: not on crime or drugs or poverty, but on cars.

Even though I’d consider myself a “car person”, this article makes a whole lot of sense.