Month: August 2011

Biking in Astoria

Plan your route: Ride the City

I’ve had a link to this site for a while. But still, very few people know about the wonderful “Ride the City” bicycle route planner. There has been and will remain a link to this site in the right column of this blog. It’s wonderful Le me mention a few other things: 1) Google maps…
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Bike Commuting 101

At the Queens Library on Broadway. Aug 8, 6:30PM. Saturday at 11AM at the library at 21-45 31st Street. Here’s the PDF flyer. Here’s my 101: Buy a bike with fenders and without quick release. Get a good lock or two. Bike. Everything else you can pick up as you go along.

Keeping Bike Lanes Free From Cars

As reported in the Guardian. I particularly like the sneaker-and-sun-glass wearing white-jacket-on-black-t-shirt gold-chain fashion sense of the rich-asshole guy who got his car crushed (yes, I know it was all staged). He looks awfully like the guys I see hanging around cafes here in Astoria.

A great idea

Pop-up cafes in parking spots. “But where will we store our cars for free, at the expense of all taxpayers?”

Cities and Bike Culture

About the Netherlands. From the NYT: But while many Americans see their cars as an extension of their individual freedom, to some of us owning a car is a burden, and in a city a double burden. I find the recrafting of the city in order to lessen — or eliminate — the need for…
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