Summary: A look at the growing urban bike culture in the United States and Europe, with a special emphasis on the personalities involved. Rating: 5/5 Availability: Order it from Powell’s if you want to feel authentic. Otherwise you could go for the usual, Amazon. “I often saw cyclists running red lights, riding the wrong direction [...]
Posts Tagged ‘San Francisco’
Times Square to go car-free in NY
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 considers banning most auto traffic on Market Street
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 [...]
Bicycle News Roundup, 2/16/09
Rob D’Amico writes in support of the Lady Bird Lake Hike & Bike Trail extension at the Bicycle Austin Blog. We will have a bit on this soon too. The blog for cleaning product Grease Monkey Wipes posted a bit about Lance’s bike being stolen, just as we did on Sunday. Anyone else quite surprised [...]
Bicycle News Roundup, 2/2/09
Houston’s new bicycle coordinator has a tough job ahead. The Houston Chronicle has a short story on their desperately needed bicycle plan update. Seattle is installing on-street bicycle parking in place of car spaces. Do we have the guts to do this in Austin? The Bike-sharing Blog reports that San Francisco is getting a bike-sharing [...]
Mercury News Opinion article pushes Heminger for Transportation Secretary
As part of our continuing coverage of the Secretary of Transportation cabinet position under President-Elect Obama, I wanted to point our readers to this opinion piece I read this morning from the San Jose Mercury News. A strong endorsement for Steve Heminger, Executive Director of the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Here’s a small portion: [...]
