For those who dislike Team Slipstream’s distinctive argyle jersey design, here’s your chance to change the design: a jersey design contest for a professional cycling team! Entries must be received September 15. A panel of judges will select the top five designs, and then these selections will be moved to the web where the public […]
I feel like ranting today. What’s wrong with this picture? The 16th Street Pedestrian Mall is a 16-block long pedestrian mall running through downtown Denver. 16th Street is closed to absolutely all vehicular traffic — including bicycles — EXCEPT for the free mall shuttle buses that circulate regularly up and down 16th Street. I didn’t […]
After Caltrain demonstrated wireless Internet access in a proof of concept last year, Caltrain received two proposals for providing WiFi. Unfortunately, Caltrain’s Joint Powers Board has had to reject those proposals as too expensive and too restrictive. Bummer.
Hey America, did you know that we’re at near record low gasoline inventory levels in the United States? What do you do when you’re running short of a declining resource? Do you carefully husband the resource so it will last as long as possible? “No!” proclaims Congresscritter Zack Space of Ohio. “Let’s pass money around […]
These passing lanes in the bicycle lane in Portland are kind of cute: The new markings include side-by-side bike lane symbols to denote the passing lane and skip-striping both where the lane widens (and then narrows) and to separate the slow and fast lanes. The new striping was done to facilitate easier and safer passing […]
BRaIN gives a nice overview of “yellow bike” rental schemes (historical, proposed and real) in Paris, Chicago; San Francisco; New York; Washington, DC; Portland, OR; and even Lexington, Kentucky. The Bike Sharing Blog covers this trend in detail. Thunderhead Alliance released their first benchmarking report detailing the level of bicycling and walking in the United […]