Essays | Commute Orlando

Disturbing Trends in Law Enforcement

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September 25, 2013

As more and more people take to cycling in Florida, and as more and more learn how to drive their bicycles in a safe and law-abiding manner, a disheartening trend is starting to emerge.

I Am Not a Bicyclist

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July 7, 2011

I’ve spent the past two decades trying to figure out how make bicycling work better for people. Perhaps instead I should have been trying to figure out how to make our communities work better. As John Wooden implied, when it comes to cycling, I’m a know-it-all, but when it comes to what really counts... I’ve found I have to refute a number of things I used to believe, or at least wanted to be true. That’s a fancy way of saying I was wrong.

The Bicycling Apocalypse: A Manifesto of Liberation Over Segregation

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March 7, 2011

Bicycling in the United States suffers from a failure of imagination. Failures of imagination usually grow out of a sense that the current situation is unchangeable. Cultures often create such a sense of inevitability inadvertently, but in some cases it’s due to an intentional effort by some to maintain the status quo.