February 2012
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832 Miles of New Bikeways Coming to L.A. County,... →
The Los Angeles County Bicycle Master Plan has been updated and approved today, and includes plans for 832 miles of new bikeways, as well as over $330 million in funding to be spent over 20 years on improving access to and the safety of bicycle transit in L.A.
LAist, 28.02.12. LA Bike Plan. LADOT bike blog.
832 miles. That’s a lot. Gonna take a while.
SF’s got 34 coming, but...
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Out of reach: How sprawl jacks up the cost of... →
But “it’s not all about transit,” says CNT’s transportation and community development program director, María Choca Urban. In fact, of the key characteristics that correlate with low transportation costs, transit is the least important. More important than access to mass transit, are densely developed, compact neighborhoods with lots of amenities like grocery stores, schools, and jobs, Urban...
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A bike-art Fish Taco Tuesday (San Diego) →
This week we’ll be finishing off the month with somewhat of a treat.
Local artist/business, Sykkelspruce/Brake Free Clothing is having a show. Seared Ahi, Salmon, veggie, and vegan tacos are just some of the options available.
So here’s the deal. In order to get over to EmpireHouse in time for them not to hate us, we’re keeping the ride local, as in Mission Hills. The route...
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Making Cycling Safer — What does the research tell... →
Whether through an increase in cycle helmet use or other methods, a desire for improved cyclist safety is this debate’s uniting point. The main issues are a lack of clarity over what generates improved safety and insufficient reliable data to draw a conclusion. Understanding risk compensation theory has been stunted due to ‘a shortage of reliable data’, and many studies on the benefits of cycle...
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Human civilisation 'will collapse' unless greed... →
The think tank found that over the past decade consumption of goods and services had risen by 28 per cent to $30.5 trillion (£19bn) - with the world digging up the equivalent of 112 Empire State Buildings of material every day.
The average American consumes more than his or her weight in products each day, many US two year-olds can recognise the McDonald’s “Golden Archers” sign, although they...
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SF focusing on hidden public spaces →
The public spaces that accompany new downtown buildings can be easy to miss, but they’ve caught the eye of San Francisco supervisors who say more must be done to let the public know they are there.
Board President David Chiu will introduce legislation as early as Tuesday to require improved signage outside such spaces, an aide said Friday. Issues of maintenance and programming might also...
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LEGO buys $500 million worth of wind turbines →
The world’s third-largest toy manufacturer is going to be putting “made with wind power” labels on all those boxes of LEGOs, and not just because they bought their power from utilities with wind turbines. Kirkbi A/S, the family holding company that owns LEGO, will be buying actual wind turbines representing fully a third of an offshore wind farm, reports Reuters.
LEGO’s...
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Notification: 500000087505 is COMPLETE.
24.02.12. 18:45
The service notification created for: start of bike lane STREET Concrete Street Maintenance
We have investigated your request for service and have taken all appropriate and warranted actions to address your concerns - If you would like more details on the results of our investigation please contact Street Division Customer Service at (619) 527-7500.
We appreciate your active...
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After huddling around that area of accident in Mission Beach for a while, we start getting going, albeit a bit slowly. There was an officer who HIT a cyclist, trying to get him out of the intersection. He was coming towards my area, too (I just got into the intersection), and I was like WTF he’s actually trying to HIT/slap us???!! and I rode away quickly.
Hope someone got that on camera.
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“Cyclist gets hit by car. Cyclist gets arrested. Driver gets VIP escort away from...”
– Timur N. What happened in Mission Beach last night (24.02.12) at San Diego Critical Mass.
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at internship, people talking about san diego’s decades-old only auto-oriented policy, and the need for crosswalks and street improvements..
an image of a decaying san diego in the future flashes into my mind.
grey, crumbling, desolate..
america’s “finest city” no more.
everyone’s moved out because the city’s failed at caring for pedestrians and cyclists....
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Philippe Starck And Peugeot Create A Hybrid... →
The hybrid design makes a lot of sense, but we wonder if having a name-brand designer simply invites thievery.
Following the wild success of custom-designed public bicycles in Paris and Copenhagen, Bordeaux will be the latest metropolis to unveil its very own city bike, by French design dynamo Philippe Starck. A twist: It’s a bike and a scooter rolled into one.
fastcodesign, 21.02.12.
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Bike the Blvd! (san diego) this sat. 25.02.12! →
Bike the Boulevard returns Three miles, seven hours, lots of drinking and eating
That helix of wheels whirling and pausing on El Cajon Boulevard this Saturday? Well that’s Bike the Boulevard.
Billed as a chance for moderate drinking, responsible pedaling and eating (bring your night lights), all types of bikes participate in this support-a-single-street series (think cash mob meets taste of event...
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WatchThe Sendoff.
Team Rickshaw rides from the San Francisco Ferry Terminal to the Golden Gate bridge to sendoff our CEO Mark on his 500 mile ride from SF to LA. Mark’s back with his annual human powered challenge — riding his bicycle more than 500 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles in February to attend the annual TED conference in Long Beach. He has completed this ride four times in the...
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Awkward Moments In China’s Car Culture Frenzy →
In one such situation, a group of guys in their early twenties laughed when we were leaving a bar on our bicycles, and made a comment in Chinese which roughly translates to:
“haha, those foreigners have to rely on their bicycles to get to the bar”.
..the part that bothers me is the fact that people’s first instinct here when they see someone on a bicycle is to presume that they are too poor...
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You work 3.84 minutes per day to pay for your... →
James D. Schwartz of The Urban Country recently calculated that Americans work on average two hours out of every day to pay for their cars. Now he’s figured out that a bicycle costs only 3.84 minutes. And that’s being conservative, assuming you’ll drop $1,500 on a new commuter bike every five years, after which it will have zero value.
the urban country, 23.05.11. via grist.org, 15.02.12.
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SANDAG’s 2050 Transportation Plan Drawing More and... →
“As the first regional government in California to develop a land use plan under the State’s strict new climate change laws, SANDAG has a responsibility to set a path toward a sustainable future,” said Tony L. Hale, Chair of the Environmental Caucus of the California Democratic Party. “Instead, SANDAG’s plan calls for more of the same: sprawl, air pollution, and an increase in dangerous...
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“If corporations are people, and life begins at conception, does that make anyone...”
– Matthew M. 15.02.12.
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Some quick facts about meat consumption and the... →
Some quick facts about meat consumption and the environment:
18% of greenhouse gases are caused by livestock farming.
Transport only contributes to 13% of emissions.
Methane is 21 times more potent than CO2 emissions.
While a cow is eating it regurgitates often. Each time this occurs more methane is released.
A cow produces 8-10 thousand liters of milk will produce 5-700 liters of methane...
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5 Amazing Places in the US in Danger of Being... →
climateadaptation:
Nice little article that ends with what I dream every environmental writer would do, answer the question: “What do we do now?”…
alternet, 08.02.12.
keystone xl press conference, nebraska.
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Mayor Lee's vanishing bike lanes →
The mayor’s resolution to create better bike lanes was exciting — until he broke it
…With the public process complete and the calendar turning to nearly one year since Lee called for the MTA to “move quickly” to create separated bike lanes on Fell and Oak, the MTA handed down a jarring announcement. The Fell and Oak Bikeways were being delayed because the agency needed to...
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Occupy Movement gets a PAC →
The Occupy movement has decided to fight fire with fire.
Last week, John Paul Thornton of Decatur, Ala. filed to create a PAC for the Occupy Movement..
atl.cbs, 16.02.12.
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“More New Yorkers are killed every year by motor vehicles than are murdered by...”
– NYC Councilmember Vacca (via thegreenurbanist)
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Plaza de Panama project, meeting report-ish:...
Just came back from the Special Meeting.
I was so obviously the youngest person there.
There were two presentations on the project. One was a summary of the Draft EIR focussing mainly on Jacobs’ plan (the main plan), the other was on an alternative to slow car traffic.
I spoke up during the public comments period. All the 13 alternatives for this project default auto traffic as the main,...
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