Archive for August, 2009

What’s your score

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Check out www.walkscore.com

Put in your address and see where you rank.  Careful its addicting.

Boston Becoming Bike-Friendly

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/us/09bike.html?_r=1

Culver City Public Meeting in Los Angeles Wave

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

The Los Angeles Wave newspaper included a photo of Margaret Linden and BPMP PAC member Meghan Sahli Wells at the July 25 public meeting:

http://www.wavenewspapers.com/news/local/culver-city-edition

Here is the PDF of the print edition

Bicycle-Friendly Laws in Idaho

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Idaho law “allows cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs, and red lights as stop signs”:

http://bicycling.com/blogs/roadrights/2009/07/28/a-stop-sign-solution/

Bike Valet Programs

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

An article in Time magazine on the emergence of bike valet programs in Southern California:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1625309,00.html

Bike sharing in New York City

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

NYC is running an experiment in bike sharing this summer:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/at-summer-streets-events-experiments-in-bike-sharing/?hp

Bike Sharing Program in China

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

See how other cities have started to create a bike friendly city.  China now has a Bike-Sharing Program.

http://dirt.asla.org/2009/07/31/hangzhou-to-expand-bike-sharing-program-to-50000-bikes/