Tag: Ride Your Bike - Page 6
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NHTS Survey: Driving = Down. Transit, Walking and Cycling = Up
Photo: Flickr, CC Relatively Fewer Car Trips Data from the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) for 2009 contains some encouraging transportation trends when compared to the previous survey done in 2001. It shows that the share of trips that
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6 Cities That Could Easily Be Car "Lite" or Car Free
Stylized 3D map of Guangzhou credit Colin Zhu at flickr. Freiburg, Germany's Vauban development is the most well-known example of a city area that has successfully turned away from car-centric culture. It's a big step that can be fraught with
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Bicycle Boulevards Are Awesome! (Video)
Slowly Coming to the U.S. Cycling is extremely green, and there are all kinds of tools in the arsenal of city planners to encourage more of it. One of the newest (in the U.S.) tools is the bike boulevard, a concept that is relatively common in Europe.
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Bicycle Cargo, Chapter 1: Racks And Bags
Bicycles are, as we keep telling our readers ad nausem, the most efficient means of transport humankind
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What's the World's Most Energy Efficient Vehicle? A Bicycle
We are always on about how efficient bicycles are as a means of mobility. See our early Eco-Tip on the topic. More recently the WorldWatch Institute published some intriguing figures on cycling. Comparing energy used per passenger-mile (calories), they
