Say hello to Cyclelicious fan Andrew Conway. Andrew is the USA managing director for Ciclismo Classico, which organizes cycling tours of Italy. He was in California promoting these European cycling tours during the Tour of California last February. Besides riding around beautiful Italian countryside, Andrew is passionate about utilitarian cycling around Boston. He has a read more
Last week, Sens. Thomas Carper (D-Del.) and Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) and Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), Steven La Tourette (R-Ohio), Melissa Bean (D-Ill.), and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) introduced the Clean, Low Emission Affordable New Transportation Efficiency Act. H.R. 1329, also known as CLEAN TEA will work in conjunction with proposed climate change legislation read more
Eric at Bike Denver writes about a Share the Road education campaign in Portland, Oregon. Traffic violators can have their tickets dismissed by taking a traffic safety class, same as many other locations. Something unique about Portland’s class, though, is the focus on safety for pedestrians, cyclists and children. This and other “Share the Road” read more
The Freakanomics blog briefly mentions Wayne Krieger’s proposed bike tax in Oregon. Wayne Kriger, the bill’s chief architect (and, natch, a non-cyclist), says bike riders should help pay for the roads they use. Just be glad he didn’t propose a Pay As You Drive fee. nVidia pushes for bike commuters. Bicycle Design: Uganda Cargo Bike. read more
Caltrain said they would try to always schedule two bike cars on certain trains, but they have no way to monitor how effective this setup is. The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Caltrain Bikes On Board project is working on a web-based interface for commuters to monitor this effectives, but why not just use what’s already read more
A work posting again because everybody always asks what I do for a living. I work in x64 engineering at Sun Microsystems. I ensure that vendor software from VMware works well on the various AMD and Intel x64 systems we ship. The process works something like this. * Product Team specifies hardware and software requirements. read more
