Tag: Car-Free - Page 11
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Boulder, Colorado Achieves Platinum Bike Status
Comprehensive Pro-Bike Planning Pays Off From contraflow bike lanes to bike-thru banking, it's no secret that the folks at StreetFilms are huge fans of Boulder, Colorado. Now they have a huge reason to celebrate, as Boulder becomes the third community
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How Fast Can a Bicycle Go? 8 Videos Brings Us Up to Speed
We do prattle on about how the bicycle is the world's most energy efficient vehicle, but just how fast can a human go on a bicycle?
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Ride Anywhere: Pugsley, the Bicycle SUV
A few days officially into Winter for the Northern Hemisphere, and many cyclists are probably thinking about hanging up their cycling helmet for the season. The bicycle is however a very adaptable beastie, than can be ridden in a myriad of conditions,
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Cheap Gas: Good or Bad?
Once again, in America, gasoline is cheaper than bottled water. Is this good or bad?
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Review: Moulton AM7 Separable Dual Suspension Bicycle
We have a bit of a penchant for small wheeled, collapsible bikes around here. In recent times Graham showed us how easy it was to stow a Strida 5 inside a closet, Andrew loves how he can squeeze his Bike Friday into a suitcase and Lloyd enthuses about
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What Credit Crunch? Two More Ecocity Projects from the Persian Gulf
Financial crisis or not, the folks in the Persian Gulf are thinking big, as usual. While construction projects in the rest of the world are grinding to a painful halt,
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New iPhone 2.2 Update Rewards Car-Free Commuters
While the future of General Motors hangs in the balance, the future of public transit is getting more and more appealing. And much much easier.
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Trek Embraces Chainless Bikes, Via Carbon Belt Drives
Belt drives for bicycles are a great thing. Especially for those who don't want to fuss with maintenance and lubrication. Though we wonder if Associated Press might've got a bit too carried away when they stated that, "While some smaller custom
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Active Transportation For America Report
Photo by Pixietart Rails to Trails (RTC) has published a comprehensive report on the benefits of an infrastructure based on walkways and bikeways across America. Currently the U.S. Government funds such projects with approximately $453 million every
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School Remembers Fallen Cyclist with Free Helmets and a Rodeo
Bike Rodeo Encourages Traffic Awareness and Responsibility When I first read that StreetFilms had made a film about putting kids in a rodeo, I thought they’d maybe gone a little crazy – but it turns out that a bike rodeo isn’t as dangerous as it sounds.
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NYC's Transportation Commissioner on Streets for People
NYC Gets Serious About Liveable Streets Imagine reclaiming New York’s streets for people. It’s not as crazy as it sounds. The folks at StreetFilms have already covered the free bikes at Governors Island, new physically separated bike lanes in the Big
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21 Small Wheel Bicycles - The Zippy Revolution
Bicycles and Bikes. When those words are uttered most brains no doubt trot off to the memory to retrieve images of diamond framed vehicles with two large wheels of about 26 inch diameter. While that might be prevailing view of bicycles, it is not the
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Yom Kippur = Carfree Day in Tel Aviv (A Photo Essay)
That’s right – Yom Kippur. A somber day of introspection in most of Israel, in mellow Tel Aviv the Day of Atonement is the closest thing to a day without cars in the Middle East. With all cars banished from the pavements for 25 hours, helmet-clad
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Bike-Thru Banking: A Boulder Bank's Cycle-Friendly Teller Window
Bank Welcomes Bicycles Financial institutions are not in most people's good books right now, but as I noted in my post on a top UK banker who travels in a chauffeur-driven G-Wiz, when a little humility and responsibility is shown, we're much more likely
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Wikis Take Manhattan: Scavenger Hunt Documents Urban Environment
In these days of lurid internet videos, it's kind of encouraging to see that you don't have to dance in lingerie to get hits. Only yesterday I posted on how the StreetFilms crew seem to be able to make interesting videos about almost anything,
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StreetFilms Visits Boulder's Contraflow Bike Lane
Boulder Bike Path Goes Against the Flow of Traffic There are not too many people who would spend their time making videos about bike lanes, and even fewer people who can do so and make those videos interesting. But Clarence and the folks at StreetFilms
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Apple's Greener MacBook, Celebrating Green Holidays, and Recycled Halloween Costumes
Apple has greened its MacBook, much to Greenpeace's delight. Is the iPod next?
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How to Go Green: Commuting
With gas prices ever on the rise, people living farther from the workplace, and traffic conditions worsening by the week, the daily commute is increasingly having an impact on our wallets and our
