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The travails of a novice bike commuter
Want to ride to work but too scared to try? You’re not alone. Here is one first-timer’s harrowing tale, along with a few words of wisdom for those new to the biking tribe.
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This miniature city is made of 100,000 staples
This is significantly more creative than we've ever gotten with office supplies.
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Kobe Bryant and LeBron James use public transit at the Olympics
If the American men's Olympic basketball team can use public transportation, so can everybody else.
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São Paulo has been invaded by giant brains
Apparently São Paulo, Brazil still has public phone booths — or at least it did. Now, thanks to the Call Parade public art project, it has giant brains, disco balls, can-can dancers, and miniature cities. One hundred artists have transformed 100 phone booths to add some whimsy to the city, and/or attract zombies.
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New walk-scoring tool finally acknowledges that walking in the suburbs sucks
At Atlantic Cities, Sarah Goodyear puts her finger on a truth universally acknowledged by everyone in the world except WalkScore: “A mile in an American suburb is a lot longer than a mile in Rome.” In other words, walking 10 city blocks is very different from walking a mile up the side of a highway […]
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9-year-old’s lemonade stand raises over $3,000 for Detroit parks
Due to Detroit's budget gap, the park in Joshua Smith's neighborhood was full of tall grass and trash. Instead of moping and watching TV, the 9-year-old took matters into his own hands.
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Bike messengers: Still rockin’ in the freewheel world
Despite numerous reports of their demise, bike couriers are still going strong -- a testament to the power of human-fueled transport in traffic-choked cities. Last week, they gathered in Chicago for some gonzo street racing, karaoke, and gobs of cheap beer.
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In Brooklyn, even the factories are artisanal
Manufacturing is back in Brooklyn! But only in a Renaissance Florence sort of way, where skilled artisans produce craft-objects for wealthy patrons with finicky desires. The New York Times reports that there are, against all odds, still factories in Brooklyn, although they’ve morphed from behemoth plants stamping out assembly-line goods to smaller shops: This building, […]
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Awesome idea: Require a cycling test to get a driver’s license
As a cyclist, sharing the road with cars is scary, for obvious reasons: They’re gigantic metal objects moving fast enough to kill you. But as a driver, sharing the roads with cyclists is also kinda scary. Most drivers are good people who don’t want to kill anyone while they’re out doing errands, but they don’t […]
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Here’s an Olympic gold medalist taking public transit
Here’s fencer Ruben Limardo of Venezuela, hours after winning top honors in men’s epee, toting his medal home on the London tube. Dude may have been working his ass off all day, and he may be sporting $600 in solid gold, but he’s not too good for public transportation. I never want to hear you […]
