Month: November 2008

Biking in Astoria

Biking on Queens Blvd

The story in the Times.

The New NYC Bike Rack

It’s official. And it’s a nice looking bike rack. Simple. Effective. As long as the whole thing remains firmly rooted in the ground. And here’s a pdf glossy promo. And it is probably the best of the finalists. But I still don’t see why it’s better than a parking meter. Or why they don’t simply…
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Bakfietsen

More on the Dutch cargo bike in Chicago.

Who needs a car?!

Full, for the record, this keg was delivered in a car. Acropolis car service, to be exact. I met the guy at the beer place and gave him my address and told him I would meet him there. He was a nice older Greek driver who said, “Bike, the best! I drive. You use legs!…
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Car free for a month

Car free for a whole month?! Wow. I guess that’s good… but one month? Except for that one year in Baltimore (and even there I was car free for the first 6 months), I’ve been car free since 1989 and you don’t hear me shouting about it… oh, wait, never mind. Still, car free? That’s…
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More on bike sharing

From the New York Times: In increasingly green-conscious Europe, there are said to be only two kinds of mayors: those who have a bicycle-sharing program and those who want one. Over the last several years, the programs have sprung up and taken off in dozens of cities, on a scale no one had thought possible…
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Ride ethically

Randy Cohen, the Ethicist, is our friend. Trust me on this one. In Sunday’s New York Times he writes: From my narrow, crackpot’s point of view (my favorite), the real harm here is not to you but to the many tens of thousands of New York City cyclists. This fellow promulgates the canard of the…
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