Archive for the 'imminent death of car-based culture' Category
Now if he could only put back in the people and the bikes
Running on Empty from Ross Ching on Vimeo.
My friend K sent me this cool but eerie video of Los Angeles without cars. From Treehugger.
EBR
Xtracycle Returning to its roots: BICAS!
As a huge fan not only of my beloved Xtracycle, but also of course BICAS, I was doubly pleased to see this announcement in my inbox just now:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 6/2/2010
SUMMARY
Groundbreaking Bicycle Company with roots in Tucson swings through town on a
Western States Tour. Founder and Tucson-native Ross Evans to speak about “living
your dream, [...]
Congress and Church, any day now
Tom Thivener sent this around the other day, but I only just now figured out how to embed it. Biketopia!
–EBR
Bikejoy
Last night I was riding my bike home in the dark and as I was pressing slowly up a hill with a fully-loaded Xtracycle I heard the familiar sound of a bike bell, being rung quite vigorously. I looked to my side and could just make out a young child bent over the handlebars [...]
Read More..>>Bicycling poised to destroy American civilization, says National Association of Manufacturers
I missed this response to Ray LaHood’s new bike-friendly transportation focus the first time it came around, back in March:
“Treating bicycles and other non-motorized transportation as equal to motorized transportation would cause an economic catastrophe,” Carter Wood, a senior adviser at the National Association of Manufacturers, told The New York Times. “If put it into [...]
What BICAS looked like yesterday
God I love that place.
–EBR
BICAS wants your lovely body and maybe even your dog
From Agent K. Walzak, of BICAS:
Subject: BICAS NEEDS YOUR BODY!
Come show your support by showing up at BICAS this Sunday, April 18th at 5:45pm SHARP, SHARP, SHARP!!!
We will be taking a HUGE group photo with everyone who is a friend of BICAS and we want you, your friends, family and even your dog to be [...]
Bike to Work Week!
In case anyone doesn’t know this yet, next week is Bike 2 Work Week in Tucson. What this boils down to, at a minimum, is free breakfast all week for most of my readership. Plus a whole lot of other stuff if you care to check it out!
This used to be the one [...]
Bike lanes from around the world — including Tucson — on Huffington Post
But as usual, Copenhagen wins.
–EBR
Car usage falls in U.S. for first time in decades
So says Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute.
U.S. car usage is still massive, with 246 million motor vehicles in use — but that number is declining.
Between 1950 and 2008 more cars were added to our roads virtually every year, as the total fleet expanded steadily from 49 million to 250 million vehicles. In 2009, [...]