The document discusses biking infrastructure and advocacy in Stockholm, Sweden. It describes some positive initiatives by the local municipality to encourage biking, such as bike plans, bike share programs, and bike pumps. However, it also outlines some infrastructure problems like poles in bike lanes. It advocates using social media, a mobile app, and direct contact with local officials to influence improvements and close the feedback loop, with the ultimate goal of having reports publicly available on the city's website.

1. Digital Artifact

2. I live in Sweden, in Stockholm
I live in Sweden, in Stockholm

3. From above it looks like this

4. And when you come closer it looks like this

5. Therefore I like to use
my bike instead of my car

6. Like many others

7. The municipality does a lot of good thing
to make it easy for me to use my bike

8. The municipality does a lot of good thing
to make it easy for me to use my bike
A Bike Plan

9. The municipality does a lot of good thing
to make it easy for me to use my bike
City Bikes for hire

10. The municipality does a lot of good thing
to make it easy for me to use my bike
Pumps

11. But there are problems

12. Poles in te middle of the bike lane
But there are problems

13. Roadwork mistakes
But there are problems

14. But there are problems
Bad planning
Green for bike Red for walking

15. Many try to influence
the local government and the providers …

16. Many try to influence
the local government and the providers
through being a part in the discussion
in different medias.

17. Many try to influence
the local government and the providers
through using twitter and facebook

18. Many try to influence
the local government and the providers
through using
the mobile app reporting difficulties

19. Every time you use the mobile app
you get a ”thank-you-e-mail” and
you don’t know what happened or
if there were others saying the same,
the feedback loop is not complete.

20. Every time you use the mobile app
you get a ”thank-you-e-mail” and
you don’t know what happened or
if there were others saying the same,
the feedback loop is not complete.

21. The goal is to have reports
on the www.stockholm.se

22. The idea is to start small
and if that doesn’t work
grow and build more pressure.

23. Start by giving
the responsible
person a call

24. If that doesn’t work
mobilize the bicycling community
on webpages and forums

25. If that doesn’t work
media is the way forward.

26. And then,
the reports will be up on
the www.stockholm.se and
we all will be able to see what happens
with our error reports