I’m happy to write this before I have real reason to. I didn’t get hit. Nobody is hurt. I thought of this while biking past the ghost bike at McGuiness Blvd and Kent St for Liz Byrne. I biked to Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn and was thinking how nice it is, once you get out…
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Make your own bike lanes! URS Rocks. Here’s the whole manual. Please apply to Astoria and NYC. These guys also have a blog. Meanwhile I’m turning on the giant bat-light-like bike-light on my roof to encourage more action like this. Save us, Urban Repair Squad. We need you!
Five months after the video of the assault, charges against the police officer are coming. Here’s the report from Cop in the Hood. And the Times.
John Seckler designed a better bike rack but the world didn’t come beating a path to his door. He submitted his bike rack to NYC but it didn’t make the cut. That’s a shame. It’s really the perfect bike rack… simple and can be attached to existing things like subway stops and parking meters and…
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The story in the Times.
It’s official. And it’s a nice looking bike rack. Simple. Effective. As long as the whole thing remains firmly rooted in the ground. And here’s a pdf glossy promo. And it is probably the best of the finalists. But I still don’t see why it’s better than a parking meter. Or why they don’t simply…
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More on the Dutch cargo bike in Chicago.
Car free for a whole month?! Wow. I guess that’s good… but one month? Except for that one year in Baltimore (and even there I was car free for the first 6 months), I’ve been car free since 1989 and you don’t hear me shouting about it… oh, wait, never mind. Still, car free? That’s…
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From the New York Times: In increasingly green-conscious Europe, there are said to be only two kinds of mayors: those who have a bicycle-sharing program and those who want one. Over the last several years, the programs have sprung up and taken off in dozens of cities, on a scale no one had thought possible…
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A friend from Amsterdam brought this nice system for hanging bikes. It’s German. And has pulleys. I like pulleys. Our ceilings aren’t high enough so you can actually walk under the bikes. But it does make things a lot neater with two of three bikes up off the ground.
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