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Saturday, May 24, 2008

Get a Bike


When the price of gas hits $15, maybe city councils in the USA will start wising up.

The bicycle is where it's at. I ride all the time, have been for the last 35 years. I do most of my to work riding on a bike. If I can do it, anybody can.

Green a City: The Future of Carbon-Free Transport: Groningen, Netherlands
Groningen. This Dutch city of 185,000 proves that bicycle transportation can reign supreme: people there make about 150,000 trips by bicycle every day.

Bicycles and pedestrians entirely rule the medieval-era city hub, cruising along on car-free dedicated pathways and short cuts with no traffic signals in some instances. But people also commute on bikes in large numbers from suburban housing spread out around the city to downtown jobs, via a ring-and-spoke network of paths. Overall, 37 percent of area commutes are made on bikes.

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