{"id":31266,"date":"2011-03-20T14:13:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T12:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=31266"},"modified":"2023-04-06T08:43:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T05:43:32","slug":"japan-turns-to-bicycles-as-cars-rendered-all-but-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/03\/20\/japan-turns-to-bicycles-as-cars-rendered-all-but-useless\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan turns to bicycles as cars rendered all but useless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s largest bicycle manufacturer, Giant, is taking emergency measures to increase the bicycle supply to Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is a world-renowned producer of cars, but people are turning to bicycles because petrol shortages and damaged roads have rendered cars all but useless in the area worst-affected by the tsunami.<\/p>\n<p>Giant sells approximately 1 million bicycles to Japan a year, roughly one in ten of all cycles imported by the country and the company expects the current spike in demand to have a knock-on effect in other markets.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Environmental Transport Association (ETA) said: \u201cBicycles provide a reliable and cheap means of transport, which continues to work inspite of impassable roads and chronic shortages of petrol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31269 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/namibia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/namibia.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/namibia-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>The low-tech (and petrol-free) road to improving lives<\/h3>\n<p>It is easy for cyclists in Europe spoilt by a choice of exotic frame materials, specialist tyre compounds and computerized accessories to forget that bicycles are for millions of people around the world a cheap and practically maintenance-free means of carrying as much as fits in the boot of a car.<\/p>\n<h3>Re-cycle your old bike\u2026<\/h3>\n<p>The charity Re-cycle sends secondhand bikes from this country to Africa where they become a much-valued means of transport for children, who would otherwise walk up to 9 miles each way to school; medical personnel; mothers and farm workers amongst others.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.eta.co.uk\/2011\/03\/17\/japan-turns-bicycles-cars-rendered-all-useless\">www.eta.co.uk<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s largest bicycle manufacturer, Giant, is taking emergency measures to increase the bicycle supply to Japan. Japan is a world-renowned producer of cars, but people are turning to bicycles because petrol shortages and damaged roads have rendered cars all but useless in the area worst-affected by the tsunami. Giant sells approximately 1 million bicycles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":31269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372,845,922],"tags":[5066,5112,5113,9751],"class_list":["post-31266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","category-scitech","category-world","tag-bicycles","tag-cars","tag-environmental-transport-association","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}