UPS has been using bikes in Portland for a couple of years now, so it’s good to see them now deployed in Silicon Valley for the Christmas season. UPS, the mammoth delivery company, tackles it with hundreds of cargo jets, thousands of big rigs, tens of thousands of those familiar brown delivery vans — and read more
Earlier this month, the Los Angeles City Council Transportation Committee considered a bicyclist anti-harassment ordinance and moved to add this ordinance to the city council agenda for the full council to consider, probably in January. The actual motion presented by 11th District Council Member Bill Rosendahl is a request for the City Attorney to prepare read more
Okay, add this to my Christmas list please. It’s a cookbook for endurance athletes. The Athlete’s Plate: Real Food for High Performance promises to deliver tips on buying locally and organically grown foods to use in recipes to create “real food for high performance.” Chef and athlete Adam Kelinson has recipes for smoothies and juices; read more
Public transit data not just for Google Maps Front Seat software launched City-Go-Round today, a new directory of applications to make transit easier to use. Several public transit agencies have made their Google Transit data open to the public and developers have used this data to create their own transit applications. City-Go-Round’s mission is to read more
Good morning. It’s a little chillier than usual in northern California this week. I even saw snow Monday morning on the hills around the Bay Area. It’s good to see a fair number of cyclists still riding in the morning chill during my commute. Ads for feminine hygiene products frequently seem to feature women riding read more
Etiquette poster for rapid transit in the Tokyo area. The complete set includes graphics of people falling down drunk, applying makeup, and yacking on the phone while riding the subway. Alas, no rude cyclists are in the set. Loud cellphone yackers on the train bug me; women applying makeup doesn’t. Via copyranter.
