Posts in 2010

Title says it all.

I’ve noticed a lot more traffic on the road just in the last few weeks.
from the Wall Street Journal.
While $3-a-gallon gasoline can be seen as a symbol of economic gains, it’s expected to spark some consumer protests and flashbacks of the overheated markets that led to $4 gasoline. Retail gasoline prices hit [...]

“It was determined, when doing the design of this construction project, that traffic volumes were just too high,” said spokeswoman Ashley Hungate. “There are too many lanes to cross safely to put the pedestrian signal in.”

While this quote comes to us from Indiana, it could just as well be from Florida.  In Eric’s recent entry [...]

A tip of the hat to Kevin Love, who posted links to a couple of most-excellent PSA (Public Service Announcements)  developed in Hungary.
My favorite one — the one for me that delivered the best all-around message — was that of the CEO in a suit who picks up a bike to move it, and [...]

Someone that thought I would appreciate it gave me a bike last week. What do you think?
It’s not as old as it looks. Even though it has 28″ wheels and old- timey brakes, my bike was built in January 1977 in Nottingham, Egland although it looks as though it is from the ’30’s. It has [...]

I’ll tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a bike. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she [...]

A defense fund and website has been set up for ChipSeal. Please visit Let-Him-Ride.com and pass it on!
Some background
In my post The Enforcement of Imaginary Laws, I shared the story of my friend ChipSeal’s arrest for riding in the road. ChipSeal has had one trial, for the citations and arrest in the City of Ennis, [...]

Another brilliant essay from Mighk:
The Galactic Empire of Star Wars could just as easily be our current Gasoline Empire.  This Empire, which I named The Tyranny of Speed in another post, depends entirely on the belief that streets are primarily for fast-moving cars.  Overthrowing the Empire will require people behaving in ways contrary to the [...]

This video is from our first real road ride, Tuesday, Feb 9. Late morning, we headed to lunch a round-about way. The instructors plan routes to use major roads like John Young and US 441 to initiate the officers in operating around large, fast, noisy motor vehicles. It also embeds the principle that bicycles are [...]

If you, one day, had to appear before a jury of your motorist peers, do you think wearing a beard would help you? I don’t. I would shave it off.
Would you call Mighk as an expert witness to help you? I don’t think I would.
Mighk has a tougher row to hoe than most of us [...]