According to a Jan. 12th Saskatoon Star-Phoenix article, "Architect
Chris Hardwicke envisions a day when you will walk out your door, jump
on your bicycle and commute to work at 40 kilometres an hour (25 mph)through dedicated tunnels suspended above city streets. He calls his idea
Velo-City, a transportation network of concrete and glass tunnels
through which cyclists could race to and from their destinations. 'It's
about building a separate infrastructure, just like a highway for cars.
I thought, why not a highway for bikes,' Hardwicke says.
"Whether Velo-City is practical remains to be seen, but the idea's
merit has already been recognized. The concept recently ranked third in
a competition about winterizing cities held by Toronto's Design
Exchange, a museum and centre for design research and education...'It
was probably one of the proposals that was the most ambitious and
perhaps the most unrealistic on many levels,' says Paola Poletto, the
Design Exchange's director of research and curator of the show in which
Hardwicke's concept appeared..."
...from CenterLines, the e-newsletter of the National Center for Bicycling & Walking
Bicycle Transportation Systems of Denver, Colorado has been proposing a similar concept for several years...
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