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Bicycle Commuter Rates

A reader alerted me to this map showing bicycle commuter rates in the U.S. Click the image for a choice of viewing sizes. Commuting is just one aspect of utility bicycling. I wonder if there’s more data on other kinds of trips, e.g. to the store, school, etc. Technorati Tags: bicycle advocacy, bicycle commuting, bicycle [...]

Posted 27 August 2010 † Andy Cline § advocacy § ecology ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , ,

Our Urban Challenge: Make It Awesome

In my last installment of this series I said we’d need to “build it first” in order to attract people downtown (and to the urban core) to shop, play, learn, and live. Today I saw something like this idea in action. We have a new downtown market at the most prominent intersection — Walnut and South [...]

Posted 21 August 2010 † Andy Cline § advocacy § ecology § news § policy ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Will Bicyclists and Pedestrians Squeeze Out Cars?

Tom Madigan, writing for National Journal, asks 10 experts if efforts to accommodate bicyclists and pedestrians risks squeezing out cars. On first blush, considering the overwhelming odds in favor of cars (numbers plus massive subsidies), the question seems absurd. Read the whole thing. Very interesting. Several of the respondents do not like the question because, for example, the situation [...]

Posted 05 August 2010 † Andy Cline § ecology § news § policy ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

We’re On Our Own, Part 2

Last year I wrote about the role riding a bicycle can play in helping us stay healthy. I don’t ride for sport, so I usually don’t work up much of a sweat. But even pedaling at modest speeds is excellent exercise that pays big health dividends. Given the state of our health care system and its [...]

Posted 25 July 2010 † Andy Cline § advocacy § ecology § news § policy ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Explain Bicycle Lanes To Me

I’ll soon have the first results of my recent bicycle survey ready. But here’s an interesting preliminary result (as yet an uncrunched stat): A bunch of respondents (almost 40%) indicated that the best thing Springfield could do to make bicycling better is add bicycle lanes. And as I gazed across the columns of answers one [...]

Posted 17 July 2010 † Andy Cline § advocacy § ecology § policy ‡ Comments (20) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,

If I Ride

As if to make up for that goofy chain grease ad, People For Bikes releases this sweet video: Technorati Tags: bicycle advocacy, bicycle culture, cycling

Posted 13 July 2010 † Andy Cline § advocacy § ecology ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: ,

Branding For Success?

Check out this report of a new branding campaign by Bikes Belong called  People for Bikes. The designs all look happy and unhipsterish, which Suzanne Labarre at Co.Design thinks is a good thing. I agree. But the photo below, promoting bicycle commuting and Bike to Work Week, goes off the rails. OK, I get it [...]

Posted 11 July 2010 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle equipment § ecology ‡ Comments (13) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Life In A Day

Life in a Day looks like a fun project. And I’m thinking we need to be sure that bicycle culture is represented. So fire up those video cameras on 24 July and ride! Any Carbon Trace readers in Springfield want to get together on this? Gimme a shout. Technorati Tags: bicycle advocacy, bicycle culture, bicycle [...]

Posted 07 July 2010 † Andy Cline § advocacy § ecology ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , ,

Checking In Re: Infrastructure

Tom Vanderbilt (author of Traffic — required reading for all humans) took a quick look at bicycle infrastructure in his Slate column last week. His conclusion: One sometimes hears, in critiques of bringing bicycling in a bigger way to American cities, something along the lines of “that might work in Europe, but it will never work [...]

Posted 05 July 2010 † Andy Cline § advocacy § ecology § policy ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Scenes From the Bike Culture Show

Among the things we did at last night’s First Friday Art Walk was dropping in on the Bike Culture show at the Lemondrop. We got a big dose of bicycles, and bicycle parts, as art. That’s my wife on the left. Notice her riding attire The kinetic contraption you see there was entertaining, but I think it [...]

Posted 03 July 2010 † Andy Cline § ecology ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged:

The Friendly Percentage

This is the summer of 10 percent off for members of the Bicycle Friendly Springfield page on Facebook. David Crump and I took advantage of the discount at Bambino’s yesterday afternoon. All you have to do is ride your bicycle there and let them know you’re a part of the Facebook group. Excellent! Looks like [...]

Posted 02 July 2010 † Andy Cline § advocacy § ecology ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,

Bike Culture On First Friday

The folks at LemonDrop are putting on a bicycle culture show for tomorrow’s First Friday Art Walk. Bicycle related art will be on display plus lots of folks on bicycles riding in to take a look. I’ll be there. And I hope to see you there. The Lemmondrop is located at 416 W. Commercial Street. The exhibit [...]

Posted 01 July 2010 † Andy Cline § advocacy § announcement § ecology ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: ,

Just Another Day in Springfield

So there I was, minding my own business, when a motorist stepped out of her car, approached me, and then thanked me for riding in a commanding lane position so that she could see me and predict my movements. I was riding to the grocery to get two green peppers when I noticed a sedan [...]

Posted 30 June 2010 † Andy Cline § ecology ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged:

Cycling Savvy

My friend Keri Caffrey, of Commute Orlando, has been working on a new bicycling education program for many weeks. The results of her hard work may now be found at Cycling Savvy. If you want to learn to ride a bicycle in traffic with ease and confidence, this is a great place to start. I [...]

Posted 29 June 2010 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle safety § ecology ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Mutual Respect

Jessica McFall’s op-ed in today’s News-Leader calls for mutual respect between car drivers and bicycle riders. Hard to disagree with that. But I have a far different experience on Springfield’s roads than she describes: Recently while riding my bicycle home from work, someone threw a handful of loose change at me from their window, hitting [...]

Posted 25 June 2010 † Andy Cline § bicycle safety § ecology § news ‡ Comments (13) ° Also tagged: ,