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Dallas Texas: A Cyclist-friendly Community

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May 16, 2009
Dallas Texas: A Cyclist-friendly Community

If you’ve only seen Dallas from the driver’s seat of a car, you don’t know what you’re missing! A year ago, I knew nothing of Dallas except what I’d read: it’s one of our nation’s most sprawling, low-density, car-centric mega-metros; its many freeways are enormous and clogged with traffic; its arterial roads are jammed...
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Draw your own conclusions…

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May 14, 2009


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How much does it cost to own a car?

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March 18, 2009

The New York Times takes a look.
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Beware the Equinox

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February 26, 2009
Beware the Equinox

Riding in to work on South Street this morning, the sun was blazing in my helmet-mounted mirror.  Ah yes; equinox on the way.  If you remember your astronomy, the sun rises and sets close to due east and west around the time of the equinox.  So if you’re traveling one of those straight east/west...
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The Bike Bus

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August 5, 2008

Some years ago some cyclists in Australia came up with the idea of the Bike Bus. A group of commuting cyclists rides the same route every weekday with the same schedule. Individual cyclists can join in and drop off wherever they like. A decade ago it was probably a bit of a challenge to...
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Commuter Rail Dreams

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June 27, 2008
Commuter Rail Dreams

I just returned from a week of cycling across California (from the Sierras to San Fransisco). This is the second time I’ve done this trip… and I love it so much, I’ll probably do it again. When I did the ride 2 years ago, the host hotel in San Jose was a Hampton in...
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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.
~H.G. Wells