LONDON – In English, the road sign was just fine, warning drivers that the route ahead is not suitable for heavy trucks. But the translation in Welsh didn't...
Ya know, we slow stickered vehicles ("I drive only 40mph" etc...) and pedestrians, bicyclers are doing very well. We cannot be making all the mistakes. Why? We...
========== (Part IV of V parts of "Cities: A Smart Alternative to Cars") ========== "But that 19.1% figure is the median. How much individual households spend...
... =v= For those not up in the latest trends in greenwash, the phrase "bright green" refers to a notion that one should only be optimistic about any and every...
Route62226.blogspot.com Apologies for the above news being two days old; but, my time at the library computer ran out before I could report it to this list. ...
========== While McCain may have won a "landslide" in a handful of sparsely populated counties in Pennsylvania that most politicians would never even visit...
========== (Part V of V parts of "Cities: A Smart Alternative to Cars") ========== "Pollution from a car isn't limited to its emissions and leakages. That new...
In response to something that I posted less than 24 hours after the ... populated counties in Pennsylvania that most politicians would never even visit anyway,...
=v= Congress, and especially Nancy Pelosi, are working hard on an American auto-industry bailout. There's word of a European auto-industry bailout that would...
... never ... the ... counties ... get ... Don't worry about the election anymore, it's over, they didn't vote for us slown and loving guys, and ladies, lets...
========== Hmmm -- well you conveniently didn't repost that part of my post which said "Obama got 54.6% of the state's vote while McCain only 44.3% . . ....
That is a great way of thinking about the other cost of owning a car. Money was the main reason we stopped owning a car. I spend $50 a month to get back and...
Our oldest is in college at a walkable university with all of life's amenities within close proximity (Walkscore 89). She has never desired to drive. She...
=v= Here's a "no auto industry bailout" petition from some sort of "free market" effort: http://dontgomovement.com/no-auto-industry-bailouts/ (I'm not...
We are in Humboldt County, CA. I do own a car, but it is rarely used and I am the only one who drives it. My 16 year old son gets around by longboard and...
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:22 AM, John Andersen ... Your son might be interested in this biking gardener in Toronto: http://www.ibiketo.ca/node/1720 Cheers, Vic...
Hi all, I have not driven in over a year, but I will likely need to drive a rental car across the state for an upcoming move. I am always nervous about having...
=v= Don't worry, it's just like riding a bike. Wait, that came out all wrong. =v= But seriously, autonomic motor skills don't fade in a year's time. If, like...
I would say it's like riding a bike, but someone beat me to it. :-) I have never gone a year without driving, but I have gone several months. It's not a...
You're not the only one. My eldest just turned 16. So he is "supposed" to get his license. He is "supposed" to get a car. He told us a few months before his...
... Oh, this seems like a good one to come back to the surface on. You know, years ago on one of my posts, someone came to my defense that maybe I could go...
... I don't really ... lunch. ... Okay, I have a question on this: how does one approach carrying their laptop in their bike pack? I mean, the possibility of...
I've fallen on my bike, skinned knees and elbows, broken the occasional rib: and my laptop (in a backpack, not in my pannier) (in a padded sleeve) has always...
... It is a trade off and somewhere I suppose, there are limits. For example, which would we rather have? The family piling into the car to go watch the movies...
That's progress. Back when I turned 16 in Southern California (1978), you would have been a pariah if you weren't chomping at the bit to get a license on your...
... occasional rib: and my laptop (in a backpack, not in my pannier) (in a padded sleeve) has always done well. ... Of the times I've really fallen off by...