From BikePortland.org, August 6th, 2007: <House passes energy plan despite ridicule over bike commuter benefit> <Patrick McHenry ... from North Carolina stood...
Sadly the Congressman's view is shared by the majority and he'll probably pick up more votes than he looses. Until the majority of drivers are also cycling...
All of this from a man promoting first century solutions to 21st century social problems. Thom Mayer "All Roads Are Bikeways" ... [Non-text portions of this...
So bicycling is a 19th century solution to finding transportation low-income people can afford? Maybe Congressman Patrick McHenry's 21st century solution for...
bikerat@...
Aug 12, 2007 11:47 pm
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I'd like to report a minor incident I had with an Acadian Lines coach earlier today. I was traveling on my bicycle northeast on Kings Road between 4:35 and ...
... Interesting, but it seems fairly inefficient when compared to the simplicity and elegance of the bicycle, and tandem bicycles allow carrying more than one...
... In other words, many of the ills of the cycling world vs the public at large are due to the sue-everybody-and-ask-questions-later mentality that seems to...
I will see your 4, and raise you 10. I had a hand in the design and construction. It could be more efficient, but I didn't have complete control of the...
Take Action Now <http://ffs.capwiz.com/img/sc/takeaction6_top.gif> League Responds to U.S. Transportation Secretary's comments on PBS Transportation Secretary...
... Much the way our former group owner ended up being an anti-car advocate. She wasn't so much SCARED into abandoning cycling as she was "bullied" into it...
... If it does not, it is not a MOTOR vehicle. Only MOTOR vehicles require those things. Vehicles driven by ANIMAL power, including Human power, do not. I...
... Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt, collected the beenie baby. ;) That being said, I don't think there's anything any more crazy about that than...
... Yes they are. "A bicycle, bike, or cycle, is a pedal-driven, human-powered vehicle with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other." - Wikipedia ...
... Funny. I've known, and used, that word since I was in my teens, and so has almost everyone else I know. I wouldn't call it a "popular" word, but it's a...
... I used my League's web form to send the following message to ... Bob Bayn LCI#685 Cache Valley, Utah...
bob.bayn@...
Aug 16, 2007 11:44 pm
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... I did originally, but I didn't like the fact that it faced REARWARD. I didn't want Lisa constantly looking at cars coming up behind us and getting scared...
Darn, I wish I could have crossed paths with Riin. I tried to once while she was in Ann Arbor and I was visiting Michigan relatives. And I wish I could have...
bob.bayn@...
Aug 16, 2007 11:54 pm
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... I doubt it. As she says in #97 of her "100 Things About Me" on her blog: "I really [don]’t want to leave Ann Arbor. After living here for 19 years,...
... Besides the wide roads Utah is very sparse with low population density and unique cultural characteristics, i.e. homogenous white middle class nuclear...
... Your first point is false. Utah is the 8the most urban state in the nation. There's lots of "empty" federal land that is leased as range-land with a...
bob.bayn@...
Aug 17, 2007 2:38 pm
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Utah sounds a lot like Colorado! There is one major difference that I've noticed in the West. We've generally got more open land available, so that often...
Here in Utah, we had wide lanes before bike lanes were thought up (either as a strategy to get wider lanes or as a strategy to get bicyclists out of the way). ...
bob.bayn@...
Aug 21, 2007 3:23 am
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... And then there's the bike industry's perception of their needs. According to the National Bicycle Dealers Association: ...
... Bike lanes make wide marked lanes narrower. As for strategy; Michael Farrell (Transportation Planner II, MWCOG) stated in the Association of Pedestrian and...
Maybe "ubiquitous" has always been ubiquitous. I've been living in countries where English is a second language for 20 years so I suppose I've missed it's...
. . . . . . Below are a couple YouTube video clips about the new bicycle rental scheme that is sharing up Paris. The link for the video is on middle of this...
Hi Y'all- I am new to list and a bike rider in Washington, DC. I wanted to pass along Center for a New Dream's program to promote bike riding. It's simple-...
... I was in Paris two weeks ago for five days walking about and about half of the cyclists I saw were on the Velib' bikes. They're very distinctive and look...
