This is an open invitation to people who wish to check out bicycle polo. We usually play at 4:00pm on Sundays. We usually play for about two hours. Teams are decided by whomever shows up, we try to make them fair. Normally we get about 6-8 players showing up, we’re looking to expand our Polo community a bit, and if enough show up we’ll have multiple teams who rotate in to play the winner of the last chukkar (short game).
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Fewer Americans like to drive, survey shows
From Pew Research Center:
Today 69% of American drivers say they like to drive, down from 79% in a 1991 Gallup survey. And just 23% say they consider their car "something special — more than just a way to get around," barely half of the 43% who felt this way in 1991.
The biggest reason for the cooling of the affair isn’t the recent spike in gas prices. Rather, it appears to be the result of a longer term trend — the growing hassle of traffic congestion, according to a Pew Research Center telephone survey among a nationally representative sample of 1,182 adults (including 1,048 drivers) conducted from June 20 through July 16, 2006.
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Are cyclists heroes?
Posted by Elicia Cardenas on August 1st, 2006
[The following ode was written by new contributor Elicia Cardenas and was originally published to the Shift email list almost one year ago. She wrote it in response to someone who questioned why some cyclists act like heroes or
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Tell us about a bad development near you
From environmentmaryland.org:
Development in Maryland is out of control, and it is paving over our open
spaces, polluting the Chesapeake Bay, and hurting our quality of life. That’s why
Environment Maryland is working to pass policies that will help Maryland grow in a
smarter, more sustainable way.
To prove that uncontrolled growth is a problem, we need to document cases of
sprawling development from all across the state. Do you live, work, or play near a
development that is going up and paving over a farm or forest? Is your local
creek polluted by runoff from a construction site or new development? Write and
tell us your story, and send us a picture if you have one.