Archive for the ‘Urban Planning’ Category
As I sat in semi-heavy traffic on the 10 freeway in my relatively inexpensive Honda Civic today, I looked around and thought, “this really sucks.” Instead of being out of my car doing something, anything, I was stuck. After using my bike as my primary mode of transportation the last two months, I’ve really come [...]
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Tags: Alternative Transportation, Commuting by Bike, public transportation, Urban Planning
Food Chain of the Road
I used to think that SUVs were the only bullies of the road. However, after running for hundreds of hours the last two years, and commuting primarily by bike the last few months, I’ve come to the conclusion that there is a food chain of the road. If I had to diagram what it’s like [...]
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Tags: Commuting by Bike, courtesy, respect, road, Running
Once The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times jumps on the commuting by bike trend, you know it’s gone mainstream. The WSJ focuses on the mean streets of LA and the “entrenched car culture” that persists around here. Commuters across the U.S. are responding to high gasoline prices by finding alternatives to driving. [...]
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Tags: biking, biking in Los Angeles, Commuting by Bike
I walked into a co-workers class today and one of my former students said, “Mr. D-, I saw you riding your bike today!” And that was followed by sniggers and smiles from the rest of her class. And then in my class, one of my students wrote in her journal that in 25 years “Mr. [...]
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Tags: biking, Commuting by Bike, Urban Planning
Most Walkable Cities
There’s this pretty neat site called Walk Score, which looks at the various factors in neighborhoods to determine if it’s walkable, and, by extension, bike friendly. These factors include a town center, availability of public transportation, parks and public spaces, and the closeness of schools. The most walkable cities in the United States are San [...]
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Tags: biking, Walking
Commuting by Bike
For the past five weeks, I’ve done the unthinkable in Southern California – I abandoned my car. Well, I’ve abandoned it part time anyway as I’ve been biking to work. The distance from my house to my place of work isn’t far-2.5 miles at most-but it’s an uncomfortable ride mainly because the streets I ride [...]
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Tags: biking, Commuting by Bike, cycling, gas prices, Trek
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