Dear Senator Simmons, I live in your district and I wanted to let you know what I thought about a particular budget issue. The newspapers are full of things that are proposed to be cut, but they never say much about what will stay pretty much intact. Today I discovered that while...
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From Atlanta’s Journal Constitution: A 45-year-old man is facing a simple battery charge in DeKalb County after he was accused of shoving a boy on a bicycle who asked him to put away his cellphone, according to a media report Friday. Brody Hartley, 13, told Channel 2 Action News that he was nearly sideswiped...
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On NPR this morning, William Ford explained why he advocated a gas tax. His explanation of market forces speaks to my comment yesterday that people will not self-limit in the face of perceived abundance. Then he went all Disney, talking about massive electric infrastructure, reserving an urban parking space before your trip and cars that...
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Bureaucrats can’t change the way we drive … but they keep trying By: Fred Barnes Weekly Standard For most Americans—make that most of mankind—the car is an instrument of mobility, flexibility, and speed. Yet officials in Washington, transportation experts, state and local functionaries, planners, and transit...
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I think there are some points we can learn from this article. From the Wall Street Journal: You don’t need a car to get road rage. For many people, few things are more infuriating than slow walkers—those seemingly inconsiderate people who clog up sidewalks, grocery aisles and airport hallways while others fume behind them. Researchers say...
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Ga. Lawmaker Proposes Doing Away With Driver’s Licenses ATLANTA — A state lawmaker from Marietta is sponsoring a bill that seeks to do away with Georgia driver’s licenses. State Rep. Bobby Franklin, R-Marietta, has filed House Bill 7, calling it the “Right to Travel Act.” In his bill, Franklin states, “Free people have a common law and...
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I’m not anti-bike, but followed by some cockamamie statistic and then some dreadful interpretation of the motor vehicle laws. It’s a pattern we have all seen far too many times. And here it is again, all in one paragraph, from a fellow applauding the new NYPD crackdown on cyclists. But in a way, his complaint about...
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From CBS News: “John Hofmeister, an ex-president of Shell Oil, says we’re looking at $5 a gallon gas in 2012.” From my observations, industry insiders tend to low-ball their price predictions.  On the other hand, he’s calling for more drilling, so he may be inflating the number in order to scare people into supporting it. If the...
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Video: Seidler Productions covers the Rails to Trails ride to AAA World Headquarters, December 13, 2010. RTC President Keith Laughlin and cyclists from around the state hand-delivered a petition with more than 51,000 signatures (33,000 from AAA members).
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From The SunSentinel: With recent approval of a contract with B-Cycle, Broward County commissioners took a big step in initiating a bicycle-sharing program in the county. The bike-sharing program is intended to reduce traffic congestion as well as reduce carbon monoxide emissions while also providing residents and tourists a cheapr way to travel. “We’re...
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