Can you be “pro-bike” and not also be “anti-car”? I’ve never really thought of myself as anti-car — I just like to ride my bike. But some thoughts about encouraging bike use have been swimming around my head. These thoughts are still trying to gel, but the gist is that it doesn’t really matter how read more
Cycling advocates and planners debating the merits of a $7.9 million bike share for the San Francisco Peninsula may want to look at recently released bike share data from Lyon, France.
I published this interview with Bicycle Colorado director Dan Grunig back in 2007. There have been some changes since then (Bicycle Colorado has grown, Thunderhead Alliance is now “The Alliance for Biking and Walking”) but Dan’s advice on getting involved with local advocacy still holds true. I intended this to be the start of a read more
We’re enjoying a beautiful day *ahhhh CHOO!* in the Bay Area — temperatures in the 70s F / low 20s C with gorgeous sunny skies *sneeze* encouraging scores of trees and flowers to ahchoo achoo achoo bloom. Perfect biking koff koff koff weather! I hope you’re enjoying the spring weather as much as I am! read more
Former Interior Secretary and “Defender of Wilderness” Stewart Udall passed at age 90 on March 20. Udall served as Secretary of the Interior for eight years under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He pushed for the Clean Air, Water Quality, and Clean Water Restoration Acts and Amendments, the Wilderness Act of 1964, the Endangered Species Preservation read more
On August 29, 2009, I had the following Letter to the Editor published in The Cape Breton Post: OK, enough is enough. Every day on my way home I encounter the same three cyclists on Kings Road, all riding on the sidewalk against traffic. Putting aside that riding this way carries seven to nine times read more
