Eran Shchori,
bike2work project manager and "public policy" team member, Israel Bicycle Association ('Israel Bishvil Ofanaim')
16/3/2013

This week, the 'bicycle encouragement bill' was submitted to the Knesset (Israel's Parliament).

There are 5 main issues covered in the bill:
1. Bicycle road infrastructure in cities.
2. Bicycle parking facilities.
3. Integration between bicycles and public transportation.
4. Showers in workplaces.
5. Economic incentives to employers and employees.

---

Related articles:

• Israel set to join the top division of cycling nations?
  
• Tel-Aviv: A Bicycle City In The Making
• Tel Aviv is Committed to bicycles - Mayor Ron Huldai Signed The Charter of Brussels
• The 2012 'Green Globus' Trophy was awarded to Telofun, the bicycle sharing project of Tel Aviv
• You may already ride on the new bicycle tracks at Bloch street
• 'Israel Bicycle Association's' efforts for making separated bicycles lanes seems to bear fruits
• Israel Installs Bicycle Traffic Lights
• How did we revise the compulsory helmet law in Israel?

• הצעת החוק לעידוד תחבורת אופניים הוגשה לכנסת
• Rewarding Cycling for positive transport externalities
• How children lost out to cars in the battle for space on our streets
  

• Doubling cycling by 2020 set to become EU policy
• Bernhard Ensink (ECF) on Funding Transport
  
• Washington, DC prepares to double down on bicycling
• Building support in Chicago, neighborhood by neighborhood
• A great day in Chicago: green lanes open in the heart of the Loop
• Cycling Rises 28% in New York City. 236,000 New Yorkers are riding bikes every day