Bike Walk Life Archive - page 4

The Cycling Professor on Twitter often says, regarding bicycle infrastructure, “we have no lack of space, just a lack of imagination.” keep reading →

Researchers analyzed 91 peer-reviewed scientific studies on the public acceptance of AVs (autonomous vehicles, or self-driving cars). They found that a majority of these studies have a pro-AV bias in either their methodology or their sentiment. keep reading →

The Atlantic recently published an article by Angie Schmitt which gets right to the point. Our cars are getting bigger and bigger, and traffic deaths are going up as a result. keep reading →

Bicycle Infrastructure Manuals is a website that hosts documents about (as you may guess) bicycle infrastructure from around the world. keep reading →

A new study aims to quantify the lives we could save by bicycling instead of driving cars in the future. Its "ambitious high bike use" scenario predicts that 205,424 early deaths would be prevented globally by 2050. Of those, 15,309 would be in the United States. keep reading →

The "Cycling Professor" (@fietsprofessor on Twitter) is one of social media's most active evangelists for bicycling. The professor's annual mobility meme contest has opened for its 2021 round of submissions. keep reading →

As more people want to live somewhere with better transportation choices, many communities are promoting their walkability and similar features. But every time a person moves to a “walkable” or “bikeable” neighborhood, they end up driving everywhere anyway. I think our towns are presenting us a Hobson’s choice. keep reading →

If you’ve ever wondered why our overall traffic congestion never improves, no matter how many new roads we build, then the answer is Braess’s paradox. It states that adding more roads to a network can actually slow down traffic. That may seem counter-intuitive, but we can plainly see it happen in all of our modern towns. keep reading →

Biking for Coffee & Coffeeneuring 2021 Summary

For this year's Coffeeneuring Challenge, I experimented with documenting my rides on video. Here are the results. keep reading →

Biking for Coffee: Coffeeneuring 2021, trip #7

This is the seventh, and final, entry in my 2021 Biking for Coffee series. As part of this year’s Coffeeneuring Challenge, I’m documenting each of my rides on video to show what a typical bike commute can look like in my community. keep reading →

Biking for Coffee: Coffeeneuring 2021, trip #6

This is my sixth video in my Biking for Coffee series. As part of this year’s Coffeeneuring Challenge, I’m documenting each of my rides on video to show what a typical bike commute can look like in my community. keep reading →

Biking for Coffee: Coffeeneuring 2021, trip #5

This is my fifth video in my Biking for Coffee series. As part of this year’s Coffeeneuring Challenge, I’m documenting each of my rides on video to show what a typical bike commute can look like in my community. keep reading →

Biking for Coffee: Coffeeneuring 2021, trip #4

This is my fourth video in my Biking for Coffee series. As part of this year’s Coffeeneuring Challenge, I’m documenting each of my rides on video to show what a typical bike commute can look like in my community. keep reading →

Biking for Coffee: Coffeeneuring 2021, trip #3

This is my third video in my Biking for Coffee series. As part of this year's Coffeeneuring Challenge, I'm documenting each of my rides on video to show what a typical bike commute can look like in my community. keep reading →

Biking for Coffee: Coffeeneuring 2021, trip #2

This is the second video in my Biking for Coffee series. For this year's Coffeeneuring Challenge, I'm documenting each of my rides on video to show what a typical bike ride looks like in my community. keep reading →

Biking for Coffee: Coffeeneuring 2021, trip #1

I'm experimenting with a new project for the Coffeeneuring Challenge this year. I'll document each of my rides with a GoPro camera. The idea is to show the good, the bad, and the ugly of bike commuting, or at least of biking for coffee. People who don't bike commute often have difficulty imagining what biking is even like, which then gets reflected in our haphazard infrastructure. Hopefully, videos like this can demystify some of the bike commute experience. keep reading →

Parking lots, our nationwide addiction

The average American is suspicious of, if not hostile to, public transportation spending. Sometimes these feelings are practical concerns based on past failures, and sometimes they're ideological. But that opposition all goes out the window once we discuss parking lots. keep reading →

Chris Arnade's "Walking America" blog shows what it's like to walk through American towns.

Chris Arnade has been writing about America's poor communities for a while now. His book, Dignity, is was one of my favorite books in recent years. Now he's started a new blog on Substack called Intellectual Inting, where he is publishing a series of posts called "Walking America." keep reading →

Coffeeneuring Challenge 2021, "c+1" edition, begins on October 18th

Coffeeneuring is back for 2021. That's the just-for-fun challenge where you play by riding your bike to get coffee a couple of times a week for six weeks. As far as these kinds of challenges go, it's one of the most low-key and accessible. keep reading →

Biketober is an annual month-long event held in the Atlanta area every October (in case its name didn't make that clear). It's a just-for-fun competition where participants earn points for riding their bicycles. keep reading →

One big rule of bicycle etiquette is to warn other people when you approach to pass them. Most cyclists around here shout "on your left." I use a bell, since I don't like shouting at people, but either one works. This past week, I encountered another technique in the wild. keep reading →

BYCS posted an article about "the inherent resistance of cycling" by James Crossley. It summarizes how riding a bicycle goes against the grain of mainstream society, and so is an act of "resistance." keep reading →

Book bikes are a growing trend for public libraries. They allow library staff to perform bookmobile-style outreach on two, or usually three, wheels. This past August had the second annual "Book Bike Week," and interest doubled since last year. keep reading →

I recently found a research paper signal-boosted by No Tech Magazine. One of its messages is that technology-based utopias can only succeed within narrowly defined systems. keep reading →