I’m in L.A. It sucks. L.A. sucks. I don’t like the city. Never have. I don’t like the car culture. I don’t have friends here. But my parents moved to Santa Monica about five years ago so I’m here every so now and then. My father’s health is bad and getting worse, so I’ll probably…
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The New York Times is soliciting bike questions for Joshua Benson, the bicycle program coordinator for NYC’s Department of Transportation. I already got mine in about my issues with Queensboro Bridge access. I hope he answers it!
…on one bike. Check this out:This and other great old dutch bike pictures can be found on Andre Koopman’s photostream.
I asked a half dozen or so NYPD about my bit of street justice. Get this: not one of them could think of any crime I committed! A few other items of note: 1) If I were on private property, they could definitely get me for something. But I wasn’t. 2) They too mentioned that…
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Putting the charm back in Charm City, Baltimore is becoming more bike friendly. Having lived and loved in Baltimore from 1999 to 2001, I can attest that the city is a good biking town that isn’t very bike friendly. I lived and commuted by bike and without a car there for the first 6 months.…
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There’s a not too great article in the Times about cars parking in bike lanes. But what is great is that a group of vigilantes have started to spay paint no car stencils in bike lanes. Power to the people. I wish there were a single bike lane I rode on. Then I could complain…
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Speaking of DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan [smile], I think I will send her my no-brainer proposal for Queensplaza. Click here for a higher-res image. It’s dangerous to bike against traffic heading back into Queens off the bridge. But we do, because we have to. The only legal alternative is a four block detour (two of…
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…but I think I’m in love with DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan. You can watch a video of her speaking on Streetsblog. She says all the right things [swoon].
I can’t believe she’s starting to sound like George Bush. The Times reports: Clinton Presses on Gas Tax HolidaySenator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s decision to take on members of Congress over her proposal for a federal gas tax holiday this summer -– “are they with us or against us” –- is tempting fate a bit, as…
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