Posts Tagged ‘carfree’

The Austin on Two Wheels Urban Living Series continues this week with a couple events. This evening will be our CarFree Living Class and Saturday will be our next ride, the Downtown Home Tour. Kicking the car habit Do you want to reduce your dependence on your car? Tired of the high costs and hassle [...]

One thing that’s been great since we started this site is that we’ve met a lot of great writers from bike sites here in Austin and beyond. Just Monday, for example, we met the writer of local blog Cyclebum. A couple of the best bloggers we’ve met so far are Anne and Tim from the [...]

NPR covered Spain’s high-speed rail network recently in comparison to ours, which is obviously WAY behind. So far behind as in not really there at all (unless you count Amtrak’s Acela service in the northeast, which is kinda-sorta-high-speed in some places and at some times because our tracks suck). It’s worth a listen, especially considering [...]

Not to be outdone by yesterday’s announcement about a potentially carfree Market Street in San Francisco, today’s Wall Street Journal reports that Times Square in New York City(!) will be going sans car as well. In May, the city plans to close Broadway to vehicles between 47th and 42nd streets. The mall will feature cafe [...]

San Francisco’s board of supervisors are seriously considering making Market Street nearly a completely pedestrian and cyclist-focused street. This would be roughly equivalent to us making Congress between the river and the capitol building carfree, or Guadalupe between MLK and 30th or so. Quoting today’s story in the San Francisco Chronicle: “Having been a great [...]

According to this story in the Irish Times, Dublin is considering banning cars from driving into the city center, mostly because they just flat out can’t build any more roads to accommodate the increase in drivers. Instead of doing something like bulldozing their classic downtown buildings or building multi-level superhighways, Dublin is considering something much [...]