On Vacation
I won’t be posting for at least two weeks… and perhaps longer. Keep biking!
I won’t be posting for at least two weeks… and perhaps longer. Keep biking!
Broadway in Manhattan is beautiful. I strolled. I relaxed. I put my feet up. I had a snack. I even flirted with a woman (she was my wife, but whatever). Everybody has happy (despite the slight drizzle). A worker from Duane Reade came up to us and asked why all the chairs were there. “Is…
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I haven’t left Astoria to see it, but I’m very exciting about keeping cars off Broadway in Manhattan! But… Does this also mean the end of the new Broadway bike lane? Anybody know? What’s the master plan?
I biked to Brooklyn today and took the road rather than the sidewalk over the Pulaski Bridge. On the Brooklyn side there was a cop with a radar gun. So I stopped and asked him what the average speed of cars coming down the bridge is. “In the 50s. One hit 62.” The speed limit…
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Midtown Cyclists Routinely Break Law.So?So do pedestrians. So do cars. The traffic laws should be different for bikes. And I don’t want to live in a place where pedestrians (or bikes) wait for the walk sign when so cars are coming.
Vauban’s streets are completely “car-free” — except the main thoroughfare, where the tram to downtown Freiburg runs, and a few streets on one edge of the community. Car ownership is allowed, but there are only two places to park — large garages at the edge of the development, where a car-owner buys a space, for…
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I’m strangely satisfied that I can finally ride in painted bike lanes for a few blocks on my commute to work (on 28th and 29th Streets). It’s the first improvement to my bike commute since I moved to Astoria seven years ago. Yesterday I biked from home to Williamsburg and then to Manhattan. You know,…
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