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Bike Commuters Clean Up and Lock Up in Brisbane, Australia

By Sarah Goodyear | Jul 9, 2008 | 2 Comments

From the Australian Bicycling Council comes word of a new amenity for bicycling commuters In Brisbane, Australia. Called cycle2city, it provides secure weekday parking and showers for up to 420 members, who will pay between $5 and $7 a day for the privilege of using the facility (that and other figures quoted here are Australian […]

Contented Streets: Why Copenhagen Is the World’s Happiest Capital

By Brad Aaron | Jul 3, 2008 | No Comments

Why have Danes again been named the happiest people on the planet? Early this year ABC News cited bikes as "perhaps … the best symbol of Danish happiness," and in this clip from "Contested Streets" it isn’t hard to see why. Here, livable streets guru Jan Gehl and others explain the many ways an increase […]

Maryland Senator Ben Cardin: America Needs Transit, Now

By Brad Aaron | Jul 1, 2008 | 6 Comments

The $1.7 billion in public transportation funding promised by the Saving Energy Through Public Transportation Act would be a step in the right direction, but it pales in comparison to what might have been. The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act — the cap-and-trade bill that died in the Senate last month — would have brought 100 […]

¡Arriba Sevilla!

By Sarah Goodyear | Jul 1, 2008 | 2 Comments

I was in Seville last week for the first time since February 2007, and in the intervening year there’s been something of a transportation revolution in the city. It’s most visibly evident in the Sevici bike-share bikes (bicis in Spanish) that are everywhere. The system launched in April 2007, and ultimately there will be 250 […]

Obama, Ethanol, and the “New Metropolitan Reality”

By Brad Aaron | Jun 26, 2008 | 5 Comments

In a weekend speech to the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Senator Barack Obama continued to distinguish himself on urban policy, talking up cities as vital economic centers worthy of investment. Harry Moroz of DMI Blog has the story. Obama opened with a reference to his time as a community developer in Chicago and he joked […]

Ad Nauseam: Auto Zone, or Twilight Zone?

By Brad Aaron | Jun 24, 2008 | 1 Comment

This Auto Zone ad is one for the ages. The dark ages. A young guy, who looks all of 17, is riding his bike down a rural dirt road when he comes upon an abandoned mid-1970s Ford Torino. A sign on the window reads, "if you can fix her you can have her." The kid […]

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