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 […]
Here’s a cute article in the New York Observer about bicycles as fashion accessories: Vikki Eichmann was striding through the Union Square farmers’ market, one hand steering a sea-green, 1970’s Schwinn Breeze bicycle and the other tossing a curtain of silky brown hair over her bony shoulder. She was wearing a strapless plum-colored sundress and […]
Janette Sadik-Khan, the commissioner of the Department of Transportation, rides her bicycle to work. That the head of an agency long associated with car travel is an avid bicyclist symbolizes what might be a new way of thinking about how New York’s asphalt should be used. Ms. Sadik-Khan said her time on two wheels has […]
“High Five!” photo by Timothy J. WIRED Blog linked to Cyclelicious over the weekend, which is always good for a few extra hits on the old website. Thank you to whoever forwarded that link to them. I also really appreciate those who link to Cyclelicious. Over the past 10 days or so, you are: Roger […]