Tag: Commuting

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  Levi's Launches Jeans Specifically Designed for Commuter Biking

  The 511 Commuter Series features performance details that offer cyclists greater mobility, protection, safety and convenience.

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  Congestion Charge Is Traffic-Cutting Magic in Milan

  Stockholm and London are famous for congestion charging to keep cars out of central districts. Now Milan's heading that direction, with impressive results

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  Beyond the Car: Envisioning a New "Sustainable Mobility Vehicle"

  it's not a car, it is a robot that takes you where you need to go.

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  GM's Super-Smart Pod Vehicle Looks at Future Transportation

  An end to gridlock. An end to accidents. An end to driving. In fact you can conduct a video conference in traffic, and this podcar parks itself. As GM readies to roll out its electric mini-car, the Chevy Spark, as reported in Treehugger last week, its

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  Zany and Alternative Maps for the London Tube

  The London Underground (subway) map is a classic: designed in 1933 by Harry Beck, a modified form of it is still used today.

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  Building More Roads Leads to More Traffic

  Here at TreeHugger, we talk quite a bit about the causes and problems with roads and traffic, and we've seen how effective congestion pricing can be. Here's one more study showing that more roads are not the answer to our

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  Conan O'Brien Commutes via Carpool and Fights LA Traffic With Road Rage (Video)

  There are lots of great reasons to carpool to work. It saves gas money, reduces carbon emissions, and fights traffic by putting fewer cars on the road. It even decreases stress levels. And using late night talk show hosts as

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  Be Kind to Your Fellow Commuters

  Public transport is great. When it's good it is fast, easy, stress-free, you can get a seat and withdraw into your own world. And when it's bad: rude, nasty, pushy, smelly, etc. etc.

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  Ottawa Gets a Bixi Bicycle Rental Going

  Congratulations and bienvenue, Canada's capital city is joining the club and re-introducing a bicycle rental scheme. They are using Bixi, the bicycles used in Montreal, London and Toronto.

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  Cable Cars and Floating Parks to be Built Along Thames River

  All kinds of new modes of transport and parks are being built in London for the 2012 Olympics. It is getting pretty exciting: every week there's a new announcement of something different.

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  Istanbul: A City Growing in 'Overdrive'

  The Istanbul of palaces and soaring minarets, of bazaars and bustling nightlife, lies within just a few of the city's 1,000 total square miles. The other Istanbul is full of factories, freeways, grey concrete buildings, and -- most of all -- traffic.

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  Living on Groupon Vouchers for a Year May Be Unwittingly Green

  TreeHugger has followed the "journeys" of several people who have chosen to live on nothing for a year but here is a new twist. Josh Stevens has been living off Groupon vouchers for almost a year now across the United States and

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  NYC Has Big Plans For Its Waterfront

  One month ago, Mayor Bloomberg released his $3.3 billion, new waterfront plan for New York City, called "Vision 2020". The plan is the city's first comprehensive waterfront plan and it

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  Why We Should Be Thankful For $5 Gas

  Photo credit: basykes/Creative Commons This guest post was written by Beth Buczynski, a writer for Care2 Causes. Oil prices have been climbing steadily since the beginning of the year, and as some gas stations prepare to dust off the ominous number

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  Los Angeles's Subway To The Sea In Its Final Planning Miles

  Today's LA Marathon followed a "Stadium to the Sea" route that has been in effect since 2009. The route was designed to showcase the City's landmarks from the East to the West. While looking at the map,

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  Solowheel Reinvents the Wheel with Next-Gen Segway Unicycle

  If you can't afford a Segway, what about half of one? While the two-wheeled personal transporter can set you back by $5,000 or more, a new one-wheel, Segway-inspired model called the Solowheel is due to go on sale for a mere $1,500 in the U.S.,

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  Car-Dependent Suburbs May Be Slums of The Future, Says Urban Planning Report

  A study released by the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) in late 2010 found that "Australia will be forced to rely on huge quantities of imported oil unless it radically overhauls its transport and urban

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  Driving Hacks to Save the Planet (and Wallet)

  In an ideal world, everyone would be able to ditch their cars, burn some extra calories, and