Found via BikeFitness‘ Twitter Feed: if you leave your bike unlocked in London, it’s likely to be gone in less than twenty minutes! Seventeen, to be exact. A research study tested length of time to bike theft of an unlocked bicycle in various UK cities, where London ended up being in the lead by far. [...]
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Drive a car: You’ll save the environment by dying!
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 [...]
Traffic Fatalities Down 10% in 2008, Transit Use and Cycling Up
According to data in a USA Today Story on the 4th, deaths from motor vehicle accidents were down approximately 10% across the country in 2008 from previous years. The primary reason for this drop? Americans were also getting out of their cars at a record rate – we drove 112 BILLION fewer miles last year. [...]
