food fight!

Excerpts from World Carfree News #25:

- On September 11, the annual food fight on the Oberbaum Bridge in Berlin kept the cars away. Once a year, autonomous people from the Friedrichshain and Kreutzberg district turn the bridge into a vegetable battlefield. This year, like every year, writes Jason Kirkpatrick, Friedrichshain reigned victorious.

- Bicycle sales in the US reached 19 million last year. The US Chamber of Commerce says more bicycles have been sold than cars over the past 12 months.

- A Galway, Ireland, gardener celebrated World Carfree Day by taking her wheelbarrow to and from work, while 30,000 Critical Mass cyclists rode through the streets of Budapest.

- Eighty-four Chinese cities have banned small cars in their city centres, because they like big cars.