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Entries tagged with Bikes

The L.A. Times featured this terrific review of NYC Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan’s keynote remarks at last week’s L.A. StreetSummit at Occidental College.

Janette, who is responsible for 6,000 miles of streets and highways, nearly 800 bridges, 1.3 million street signs, 300,000 streetlights and 12,000 signalized intersections, told the…

Although the exact date of its invention is debated, the bicycle is almost 200 years old.  So why all the excitement now?

Boston has become the latest city to venture into street bike rentals.  Streetsblog reports that the city has awarded a contract to the same company that launched…

Through the pain of the economy, it’s nice to see a positive in the efforts to reduce VMT.  Bike sales in Australia are up 38% for 2008, making it the ninth consecutive year demand for bikes has outstripped vehicles according to this article.

Elliot Fishman, advisor to…