Bikes Vs Cars - The Film documents the worldwide bicycle advocacy movement and its opponents

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The bicycle, an amazing tool for change. Activists and cities all over the world are moving towards a new system. But will the economic powers allow it? Bikes vs Cars, a new film project from BANANAS!* and Big Boys Gone Bananas!* director Fredrik Gertten, looks into and investigates the daily global drama in traffic around the world. . . .

It’s an uneven fight. Activists and politicians that work for change are facing a multi-billion dollar car, oil and construction industry that use all their means to keep society car dependent. We know that the world needs radical changes to save the climate and the environment, but the car industry is selling more cars than ever. Today there are one billion cars in the world. By 2020, that number will double.

The film will follow the individuals around the world that are fighting to create change. We meet Aline at Sao Paulo’s Ciclofaxia, the weekly Sunday ride where one lane of Paulista Avenue is opened for bikes only. Aline is an inspirational person in the city’s bicycle movement, who tries to focus on the positive aspects of being a cyclist. But that can be difficult in a city where one bicyclist is killed every four days. And in Toronto, where mayor Rob Ford strips away the city’s bike lanes in his battle to win the “war on cars,” we watch as members of the Urban Repair Squad infiltrate the streets at night, using spray paint and stencils to replace them.

From bike activists in Sao Paulo and Los Angeles, fighting for safe bike lanes, to the City of Copenhagen, where forty percent commute by bike daily, Bikes vs Cars will look at both the struggle for bicyclists in a society dominated by cars, and the revolutionary changes that could take place if more cities moved away from car-centric models.

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Bikes Vs Cars - The Film documents the worldwide bicycle advocacy movement and its opponents

MoBikeFed comment: We saw the trailer to Bikes vs. Cars at the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals Professional Development Seminar in St. Louis last September.

It has some really compelling footage--though advocates here in Missouri are more likely to view our advocacy work as a cooperative enterprise and not so much as "versus" anything else.

Still, it is a compelling and dramatic take. If you bicycle, you will probably find a lot to identify with.

If you would like to watch the film on Vimeo on Demand, you can use the code "MoBikeFed" for a 15% discount.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/bikesvscars/116966445