The publishers of Dirt Rag Magazine are planning to introduce a new magazine this spring about riding the streets–from commuting to road biking to family biking. Bicycle Times will begin publishing in April of 2009 and publish quarterly during the first year.
This is good news if commuting really gets some attention. I’ll remain skeptical until I see the first issue. And what I’ll be looking for is some kind of balance between sport-bike issues and everything else.
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Did you see this?
Page 206-207 of the 451 page bailout package (just signed into law) http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/01/news/pdf/
19 ‘‘(i) QUALIFIED BICYCLE COMMUTING
20 REIMBURSEMENT.—The term ‘qualified bi
21 cycle commuting reimbursement’ means,
22 with respect to any calendar year, any em
23 ployer reimbursement during the 15-month
24 period beginning with the first day of such
25 calendar year for reasonable expenses in
26 curred by the employee during such cal
1 endar year for the purchase of a bicycle
2 and bicycle improvements, repair, and stor
3 age, if such bicycle is regularly used for
4 travel between the employee’s residence
5 and place of employment.
6 ‘‘(ii) APPLICABLE ANNUAL LIMITA
7 TION.—The term ‘applicable annual limita8
tion’ means, with respect to any employee
9 for any calendar year, the product of $20
10 multiplied by the number of qualified bicy
11 cle commuting months during such year.
By the way…as an introduction, I’m also in Springfield, and commute by bike 3 days a week from out near Sam’s Club to CU on Central Street.
Posted 03 Oct 2008 at 4:30 pm ¶T- Yes. I posted a couple of things on this earlier.
I live near campus and commute to my office downtown (part of the MSU crowd taking over there)– about 2.25 miles.
I’ll get you linked… tomorrow. Right now it’s bed time
Posted 03 Oct 2008 at 10:38 pm ¶