For many kids today, particularly those living in the suburbs, life can be one long shuttle between school, soccer practice and the mall. A generation of children who grow up dependent on being delivered to their destinations by car is less likely to make sustainable transportation choices later in life. More trips by car not only has a direct impact on air pollution and but can also foster obesity, lung disease and other symptoms of poor health. Kids are the
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Random thoughts
Pedestrian injuries are the norm, not the exception, on city streets big and small.
The best way to build forgiving streets is to erect buffers, in both space and time, between fast-moving drivers and much more vulnerable bicyclists and pedestrians.
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Rocket on two wheels
Engineer’s bike goes 0 to 60 mph in five seconds
In place of synthetic rubber fuel, however, the bike uses ordinary roofing tar. To ignite it, Pickens placed a model-rocket motor inside the engine. A button on the handlebar fires the model-rocket motor, which in turn sets off Pickens’s larger motor by lighting the roofing-tar fuel.
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Traffic Safety Facts
Pedalcyclist fatalities occurred more frequently in urban areas (66%), at
nonintersection locations (67%), between the hours of 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.
(30%), and during the months of June, July, and August (36%).
In 1994, the average age of pedalcyclists killed in traffic crashes was 28.9; in
2004 the average age of those killed was 38.7, and the average age of those
injured was 28.6.
Pedalcyclists under age 16 accounted for 21 percent of all pedalcyclists killed
and 32 percent of those injured in traffic crashes in 2004. In comparison,
pedalcyclists under age 16 accounted for 37 percent of all those killed in 1994.
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Baltimore Metropolitan Council presentation
The presentation at the Baltimore
Metropolitan Council (on 1/24/06) went well which was essentially to solicit
support for:
Strategy4B of Maryland
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Baltimore Bike Master Plan
For those of you who missed the January 18th public review meeting of Baltimore City
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Bike lanes on the path to approval
The Baltimore sun is running a piece on Batlimore City’s bike master plan and yours truely is quoted at the bottom.
Stolen bikes
Hi all –
Several very expensive bikes have been stolen from my store. Please look out for them. I am offering a reward for the return of each and any of them.
I am especially interested in catching the thief.
If anyone knows of someone working on bikes and installing high end parts, please let me know, as the bikes may be parted out.
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One Less Car in Annapolis
2006 Maryland Bicycle and
Pedestrian Symposium
One Less Car will host the 9th
annual Maryland Bicycle and
Pedestrian Symposium in the
Miller Office Building in
Annapolis on Wednesday,
February 8 2006.
The symposium will feature
speakers, presentations and
demonstrations of alternatives
to cars as transportation.
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101 (ab)uses of a car
From a discussion group: On these winter rides I continue to be disgusted by the number of
Mommy’s that are sitting in their Suburban’s, Expedition’s, LX-
470’s, Rover’s, and Volvo’s with their engines running, talking on
the phone or reading a book, spewing emissions into the environment
at the head of their few block deep neighborhoods waiting for little
Biff and Muffy to get off the school bus. What is wrong with these
people is a clear example of what is wrong with much of America.
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