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January 14, 2016
Beijing Community General Online Media Press

Keep Cycling on Smoggy Days

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Ines was interviewed by Global Time when smog and haze continued to shround Beijing. She still rode through smog to promote green transportation. Please click here to read the full article.

No cars please

On her colorful fixed gear bike, German Ines Brunn is among the coolest cyclists in Beijing. For Brunn, the founder and owner of Natooke bike store in Wudaoying Hutong in Beijing, biking has been her unchanged choice of transport.

“Even if the air is polluted, I still need to get around,” she said. “[In terms of inhaling the air,] there is not much difference if you walk or stand on the street waiting for a taxi, or you walk to the subway or you ride a bike.”

And if you take a taxi, you are contributing to the pollution, said Brunn.

A more responsible behavior, from her perspective, would be “try to reduce pollution rather than contribute to it.”

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