Archive for the 'imminent death of car-based culture' Category
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, [...]
Copenhagen and bicycles
Lauren just sent me this video under the heading “Copenhagen is ridiculous.” I thought it was going to be about global warming, but it is a video on some of the really creative and amazing things Copenhagen has done for bicycles. Like for example pavement-level flashing red lights that bicyclists cannot see (“we’d [...]
Read More..>>Bogota bike race . . . cyclist v. bus v. car
From Mike’s Bogota Bike Blog. (Note: Transmilenio is the public transportation system, basically enormous buses driving in dedicated bus lanes.)
This morning, a cyclist, a Transmilenio rider and a car driver ‘raced’ 7.5 kms across Bogotá during the morning rush hour. Naturally, the cyclist (Ferreira, the city councilman who plan to create a public bicycles [...]
More ideas for Lori
Pineapple sales:
Mobile dough-mixer (look closely):
Mobile oven:
Mirror transport:
Hamburger shop:
Flavored Coffee sales:
–Erik Ryberg
Read More..>>“Any city can do it, cities of 50,000 people, or cities of ten million people”
I got back to Bogota last night and have already met Mike Ceaser, owner of Bogota’s Cafe Bici and Bogota Bike Tours. Today I pick up a bike and I am getting a tour of the ciclo rutas in Bogota plus hopefully a few other things.
Of course I am most excited about [...]
Lauren’s Chicago Critical Mass Ride
Check out my friend (& former legal secretary) Lauren’s post about the Chicago Halloween Critical Mass ride on her blog here.
Sounds pretty cool.
–Erik Ryberg
Bogota: an experiment in social integration
Tucsonbikelawyer is altruistically traveling to Bogota, Colombia next week to investigate for you all what it is like to live in a city that is run by a bona-fide bike advocate who not only talks the talk but pushes the pedal. The former mayor of Bogota, Enrique Peñalosa, has completely transformed his city and [...]
Read More..>>Cargo bikes!
A cargo bike blog somehow related to Xtracycle has just featured two from Tucson — the couple above on their monstrous bakfiets-xtracycle and the Mercurio that BICAS just auctioned off. Check it out! http://www.cargobikegallery.com
Man I love cargo bikes. Has anyone seen the three-wheeled recumbent with the giant rear platform around town? [...]
And the winner is . . .
. . . Lori A of www.throughhikers.blogspot.com, pictured below at last year’s SF Critical Mass Ride, which she happened to stumble into during an epic bike tour of west coast brew pubs.
Congratulations Lori! And thank you to everyone who bought tickets and helped us out. BICAS made lots of money and [...]
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