Greening the Ways We Get Around: Why Attitudes Can Be As Important As Infrastructure
Street scene in Tehran. Photo: kamshots / Creative Commons . In the latest example of how tough life can be for would-be women cyclists around the world, the new police chief of the Iranian city of Esfahan has decreed it a crime for women to ride a bike or roller-skate in public — an infraction he said would be “severely prosecute[d.]” It’s little wonder, then, that twice as many Iranian women as men are obese…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Greening the Ways We Get Around: Why Attitudes Can Be As Important As Infrastructure
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