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I want to ride my bicycle (from SF to Amsterdam)!
Last week the City of San Francisco adopted a new bicycle plan that will launch 45 new projects to improve biking in the city and add almost double the number of existing bike lanes to the city...
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Bicycle Justice: Whose Road is it Anyway?
“These bicyclists are extremely rude, and they take up the road — four, five people at a time,” complained one caller to NPR member station KPCC’s show AirTalk. The caller said he lives in Mandeville...
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New Study: Cyclists and pedestrians still getting shortchanged
Okay, so we know that despite troubles in Detroit and Toyotaland the automobile is still king in the US of A. But sometimes it takes some raw numbers to bring home just how much the entire country’s...
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More Istanbul bicycle adventures
Today my piece about Murat Suyabatmaz and his intrepid cycling friends in Istanbul was posted on sfgate. Check it out: Istanbul and Bicycling, Like Dark Bread It’s Good For Everyone It has excerpts...
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Rediscovering Simplicity: The Cyclists of Italy
Whenever I travel to different countries and cities, one of the things I’m interested in is how locals move around in their daily lives. Call me a transportation glutton, but I’m a sucker for trains,...
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Amsterdam Biking Paradise Didn’t Happen Overnight
I went to a very interesting and inspiring presentation last week at San Francisco’s Public Library. The name of the event was Lessons from Amsterdam: How San Francisco Can Bicycle toward Greatness,...
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Imagine There’s No Cars in the Streets
It isn’t hard to do! This year’s third Sunday Streets, the City of San Francisco’s closing off stretches of a neighborhood’s streets to automobile traffic, and opening them to pedestrians, bicyclists,...
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Pedal Power to the Music People!
A couple of days ago the 6th annual Bicycle Music Festival, the largest 100% bicycle-powered music festival in the world, took place in San Francisco. Starting at Old Cabin Meadow in Golden Gate Park,...
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HOLY SPOKES!!!!! London commits £1 BILLION to new bicycle infrastructure.
From the Department of Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, last week the city of London announced one of the largest cycling transportation development budgets in the history of the bicycle,...
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Separated in San Francisco
There are very few situations in life in which the idea of being separated would seem attractive. However, on Polk Street in San Francisco, right in the heart of one of the most bustling corridors...
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