January 2010
15 posts
The Invisible People on Bikes Right in Front of... →
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5 Years of Using a Bike as Transport
I realized tonight that my 5 year anniversary is coming up fairly soon. The anniversary of my starting to ride a bike again after abandoning it once I got a drivers license… and also had that regrettable infatuation with rollerblades, but let’s not talk about that :0) However, being the geek that I am, I wanted to figure out *exactly* when I bought the bike, so that I could plan a...
Instead of building new green places, let’s green... →
Budget crunch nixes Westchester... →
“Though few issues touch New Yorkers lives more personally on a more regular...”
– Aaron Naparstek, reflecting on the shift in political will in just the past 4 years.
Financing Transportation in an Age of Political... →
My year as a woman in a city of bikes →
Less discussed is the experience that women have not just as individuals riding, but participating — and in leadership roles — in the broader world of bicycling: as employees or customers in shops, at races, in the industry, in advocacy, and in conversations on the road, on the internet, and over coffee and beer.
But this past year as a blog writer and editor covering the bike world I’ve had...
The $290,000 Speeding Ticket →
Bridge Stories from Portland →
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Protecting People in Cars from Snowballs
Two recent incidents indicate that even 2-ton metal boxes are not enough to protect car drivers from an errant snowball. The snowballs were apparently such a threat, that these people brandished fire arms to demonstrate their concern.
First, a Washington DC Detective pulled a gun after his 2.5 ton, 15ft Hummer was pelted with snowballs.
The city’s police chief slammed a veteran detective...