Posts from May, 2009

Fare to go from $1.50 to 1.75 to ride the Trolley Bus. Lynx charges $2?
BART fares are going up 6.1 percent on July 1, with an additional 25 cent increase for short trips and a $2.50 increase for rides to San Francisco International Airport, the agency’s board decided Thursday.
Adding to the pain for [...]

News from Europe, a vehicle for adding MUPs to Google Street View
I’m an avid user of the Google Maps street and satellite views for my route planning. Being able to see intersections from above and at the street level allows me to choose routes with the easiest crossings of major roads, or determine in advance [...]

Now here’s a great way to serve up Piña Coladas at your next pool party and get in a workout.
Perfect Father’s Day gift for the cycling dad who has everything!
Found at RockTheBike.

In the comments for the post How do we get from here to there? I asked readers to estimate how many miles they’ve biked in what they considered to be a “vehicular cycling” manner, and how many motorist-related crashes they’d experienced in those miles. Here are the results (which are of course not scientific, [...]

Bike racks and lockers at The Wave — Lynx Terminal
Transit is one of the things I’ve wanted to cover on this blog. Public transportation both extends the range of the bicycle and offers essential alternatives to the car for a just and healthy traffic culture. But it’s something I know very little about.
Enter our newest [...]

…at B3 after Critical Mass tomorrow.

I don’t know if any of you had a chance to catch this series on your local PBS station …. I did, and it was interesting and informative.  Of course some will quibble over the minutia, but I thought it did a even-handed job of describing … well, let me just let the series explain [...]

I was shooting stills of the cycletrack when I heard the sound of an accelerating van and a cyclist’s freewheel behind me. The van had sped up to beat the cyclist to the corner. The light was green for both the road and the cycletrack.
Last week, John Allen and I shot video on the Pinellas [...]

Anyone who’s spent time on the roads (driving any kind of vehicle) has witnessed the insanity of impatient drivers. Saturday, Andy Cline shared a crazy-driver story from his driving trip to Delaware. Being slow, we cyclists are probably treated to their stupid antics more than others. My friends and I were fortunate to have a [...]

Friday May 22 was the official Bike to Work Day, and Mayor of Orlando Buddy Dye takes the day to ride in with fellow cyclists in the morning.   Given the wind and rain this week, I wasn’t sure what kind of weather we’d get or how many cyclists would show …. but as it turned out we [...]