Before World War II, several tobacco company included trading cards in their cigarette packaging, similar to baseball cards included in some modern packages of bubble gum. One British brand, Ogden’s Cigarettes, ran a series of cards with tips for Boy Scouts as a kind of Victorian age Instuctables. These tips included a few on cycling […]
Santa Clara County (California) Roads Department will present their paving maintenance schedule at the VTA BPAC meeting next Wednesday, January 13, 2016, and they’ve asked for input from the BPAC regarding opportunities for Complete Streets improvements for these roads.
Migrants and refugees enjoy a festive day riding their bicycles around their camps in Calais and Dunkirk as they celebrate Christmas. Many Middle Eastern and North African Christians belong to one of the Eastern Orthodox and Coptic churches which observe Christmas Day as determined by the Julian Calendar. Embed from Getty Images
California Governor Jerry Brown announced his proposed 2016-2017 state budget today. Brown’s $122.6 billion budget includes $11.6 billion for transportation spending, include $100 million from cap and trade funds for a new program called “Low Carbon Roads.”
Crews drained the Canal-Saint Martin in the 10th Arrondissement of Paris to clear away the debris and refurbish the canal. When this canal was last drained in 2001, 40 tons of debris was removed. This time around, cleaning crews found a few of the 9,000 Velib bike share bikes that go missing each year, along […]
That video of “Yooper Dave” hauling a deer carcass on his back while riding a bike has gone viral again. Dave Moraska lives in Iron Mountain in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I first saw this photo of Dave doing this perhaps a decade ago. He also reportedly carries his chainsaw and other tools around […]