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The rest is here
Included are quotes from the Secretary of Transportation and a recap of the Grand Rapids, MI bike summit.
Ride on.
Monday, April 27, 2009
From the League of American Bicyclists
The rest is here
Included are quotes from the Secretary of Transportation and a recap of the Grand Rapids, MI bike summit.
Ride on.
Bicyclists are changing our streets and cities
A backstage hero of Jeff Mapes' book "Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities" is an intense young bureaucrat named Mia Birk, who put Portland on a "road diet" and created bike lanes across the Rose City.
"The motto was, 'Better to ask forgiveness than permission," joked Mapes.
It sums up why a sweeping change in transportation policy has caught hold from New York City to Louisville, Ky., to such "Left Coast" cities as Seattle, Portland and Davis, Calif.
In Portland, where he is a political writer with The Oregonian, Mapes' bike commutes were made safer when the city shut down one entrance ramp to the Hawthorne Bridge that was causing bike-car conflicts.
"A movement has grown slowly, under the radar screen, which people are hardly aware is going on," Mapes told a Tuesday night forum sponsored by the Cascade Bicycle Club.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Downtown
Well, I have to tell you all.
No matter what you think of the Harrison Square project in Downtown Fort Wayne, I believe that it is awesome. Here is why.
After work last night I hustled over to JK O'Donnells and met my wife and another couple for dinner and the place was pretty full. We had a great meal and then I had to go to a meeting. On my walk to the car, I noticed a couple of old Schwinn tandems locked to a pole. I passed a great number of people walking and riding their bikes as I strolled north on Calhoun.
After my meeting I parked at the City County building and pulled my bike out of the bike lockers there and rode down Calhoun toward the Botanical Conservatory. I passed even more people walking and riding their bikes around the downtown area. I ran into some neighbor friends of ours who had just dropped their teenage boys at the ballpark and they asked me if I knew where they could get a piece of pie downtown. I was stumped (business oppotrunity?). I continued south to Douglas and turned west toward the sound of the crowd and the lights. I was amazed to see all the people standing outside the ballpark! I continued toward the bike racks at the main entrance and was pleasantly surprised to see that all of th racks were full! I'm not kidding. I had to lock up to a pole!
So, why was it awesome? People are out. Meeting each other at public places and walking and riding their bikes rather than their cars. Urbanism baby! It warms the Fort Wayne Bike Commuter's heart.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Could Fort Wayne be next? Yes We Can!
Sorry, Portland
- Posted by: Eric Smillie
- on April 7, 2009 at 12:00 am
A primer on the best burgeoning bike scenes in North America
In any list of the best biking cities on the continent, Portland, Oregon, would certainly come out on top (with some cries of foul from San Francisco cyclists). But there are plenty of other North American cities where people move on pedal power. And in the wake of the 2008 spike in gas prices and boom in bike sales, municipal governments are attempting to make things easier for riders. We’ve measured everything from the League of American Bicyclists’ comprehensive Bicycle Friendly Community ratings to the frequency of informal street races to bring you snapshots of seven places where the gears are turning.
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