Posts Tagged ‘biking for transportation’

One winner each week this spring sharing the experience of your ride

Welcome to the sixth and final installment of my month-long series about me and the 30 days of biking challenge.  Over the month of April, I will take my bike out for at least a short ride every day.  I’m also hoping to reduce my car use and perhaps even shed a pound or two. [...]

Welcome to the fifth installment of my month-long series about me and the 30 days of biking challenge.  Over the month of April, I will take my bike out for at least a short ride every day.  I’m also hoping to reduce my car use and perhaps even shed a pound or two. You might [...]

Welcome to the fourth installment of my month-long series about me and the 30 days of biking challenge.  Over the month of April, I will take my bike out for at least a short ride every day.  I’m also hoping to reduce my car use and perhaps even shed a pound or two. You might [...]

Thoughts on where we’ve been and where we are going ahead of tonight’s Bike Boulevard Open House As Austin prepares to experiment with the concept of bicycle boulevards, it is important to remember where bicycle infrastructure has been and why bike boulevards are really important in the goal of creating a city where large numbers [...]

On Monday, we discussed how a community’s bike -friendliness and level of transportation cycling is tied to how well they address the needs and concerns of women. Essentially if you aren’t closing in on gender equity in cycling use, you are never going to make the strides toward real growth in biking as a viable [...]

Eurobike is wrapping up and Interbike, the North American bicycle trade show, will be starting up in the next few weeks. In the past, this has been the place where bicycle companies big and small try to wow dealers and industry writers with the lightest, most aero on everything from bikes to wheels to shoes. [...]

Every few years, someone does a study to tell us that the well meaning things we do to save the environment actually are hastening its destruction. Sustain Lane recently reported on such a study being done by Karl T. Ulrich, a professor at the Wharton School of the Business at the University of Pennsylvania showing that [...]

Filmmaker Jay Savsani recently produced this short documentary on transportation bike culture in Amsterdam, a city where over 40% of traffic moves by bicycle. One of women interviewed in this film mentioned that when she moved to Amsterdam, she thought it was old fashioned that everyone rode bikes, but now she can’t image otherwise. There is [...]

I’m never one to do today what can be put off until tomorrow, especially when it comes to shopping for gifts during the holidays. Just look how late I waited to pick out a Christmas Tree. To help those who are like minded, I’ve put together a brief list of gifts I would think any [...]