Spotted these bicycle-shaped bike racks in Baltimore this weekend. They are pretty awesome.
Tag: transportation
Roads were not built for cars
Check out this Kickstarter campaign from Carlton Reid — the book, Roads Were Not Built for Cars due out in print, Kindle and iPad in Summer 2013. From the campaign: “Cyclists were written out of highway history in the 1920s and 1930s by the all-powerful motor lobby: Roads Were Not Built For Cars tells the real story, putting cyclists centre…
The Clean Energy Security Trust
Last week, president Barack Obama put forth a proposal to create the Clean Energy Security Trust, to research renewable and domestically-produced energy sources. Per the president’s plan, $2 billion would be set side over 10 years that “will support research into a range of cost-effective technologies – like advanced vehicles that run on electricity, homegrown…
Sharing the love of Bike Shares
Planetizin has this piece today on the rise of the bike-share: “Pittsburgh, Columbus, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Detroit, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minneapolis – the list of Midwestern cities that have already, or are hoping to, establish bike-share systems is a testament to the incredible popularity of a concept that’s only found its footing in the U.S. in…
riseandtide.com 