Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy
My book, Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy, comes out in December, and I’m already getting pushback about the title.
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Local Spotlight: Hobart Bike Kitchen
It’s 4pm on a wintery Sunday in Hobart, and the Hobart Bike Kitchen (HBK) can pat itself on the back after another great day of service.
Preserving the Past to Serve the Future: Using Pre-fossil Fuel Technology on Regional Waterways
Transitioning includes reinvigoration of heirloom technologies and traditional skills needed to thrive in a carbon-constrained future.
European Union’s SAIL consortium: bringing on the future
The nations and waters of the North Sea comprise the modern world’s most intensive sail transport environment.
Why Pushing Alternate Fuels Makes for Bad Public Policy
For nearly four decades, every American president has promoted alternative fuel vehicles as a way to secure the country’s energy independence.
Peak Moment 238: Splendid Bicycles for Cargo and Kids
Picture a sofa perched on a bicycle for its move across town! That’s how Portlanders Joel and Barb Grover transport items too big or awkward for a car.
Canceling the Curve: A Small Town Rightsizing Success Story
PPS often says, ‘We have to stop building transportation through communities and instead build communities through transportation.’
Mobile Bike Repair Gets Michigan Rolling on Two Wheels
Michigan may be known as the home of the Motor City, but there are more than a few folks here who enjoy traveling by bicycle.
The Great (and Not So Great) Bike Debates
Cycling is a great example of an EcoOptimistic solution, as I’ve written about before. It works on so many angles that it surpasses the win-win-win solutions that I often discuss here.
Infrastructure for the sake of jobs?
Jobs and economic growth are a result of having a productive system in place, not the other way around. We need to create real net wealth that benefits not only the local communities, but the region as a whole. Don’t get me wrong, jobs are great. But, building infrastructure with the primary purpose of creating jobs, with little consideration to context, is setting a bad precedence and setting up communities for unexpected liabilities.
Welcome to the Rightsizing Streets Guide
Many of our streets haven’t changed in decades, even when they’ve proven dangerous, or the surrounding communities’ needs have changed. When the roads have been altered, they have often been made wider, straighter, and faster, rather than more livable. Our Rightsizing Streets Guide aims to help planners and community members update their streets to make them ‘right’ for their context.
The Streetcar Chronicles: Part I Dude, Where’s My (Street)car
Many urban transportation historians point to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia’s successful campaign to rid New York City and its boroughs of the streetcar as one of the key turning points in crippling public transportation across the country. It set a trend that made eschewing streetcars a trendy thing to do. He was heard to comment that streetcars were as obsolete as the sailing ship, perhaps reflecting his drive to banish any “relics” from the city that reminded him of the “old country” (LaGuardia was an immigrant himself). Well, sixty-five years after the demise of the last streetcar in New York City, I can confidently report the that streetcar (and its similarly healthy big brother, light rail) are doing just fine.