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Here’s why Pete Buttigieg’s tax on driving isn’t ready for prime time
Taxing drivers by the mile could disproportionately burden low-income workers, rural communities, and people of color.
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About that ship jammed in the Suez Canal …
The Ever Given is supposed to be a more efficient vessel. Running aground and blocking maritime traffic is ruining that.
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Stacey Abrams helped Georgia go blue. Now she wants it to go green.
Abrams connects the dots between voting rights, transit, and the future of the planet.
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Atlanta region heads to the polls to reject a massive transportation investment
We've looked into our crystal ball, and it doesn't look good.
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I am kind of in love with these glowing fish bikes
As I always say, a woman needs a man like I need a fish-bicycle. Which is why I got married, I guess, because I need this fish-bicycle pretty bad.
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This amazing lightweight bike is made entirely out of cardboard
The bikes cost about $10 to make and can support up to 300 pounds.
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The best pictures of trucks inside trucks inside trucks
Here’s a kind of awesome way to get trucks off the road: put them inside trucks inside other trucks, like some kind of truck turducken. Turtrucken. It’s three, or four, or nine trucks for the carbon footprint of one! This picture came originally via Reddit, so there’s little context, other than that it was taken […]
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New York City is making cyclists go to remedial biker’s ed classes
New York City is treating wayward cyclists the same way a driver who’s racked up one too many DUIs might be: It’s sending them to class to review the basic rules of the road. The New York Times reports: This spring, the Midtown Community Court began sentencing cyclists who had been issued tickets for certain […]
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Watch the winner of the first cross-country bike race cross the finish line — in 1982
In August of 1982, four men rode out of Los Angeles on the Great American Bicycle Race, the first transcontinental bike race ever — what ABC’s Wide World of Sports called “the latest bizarre product of this country’s rapidly burgeoning ultra-endurance cult.” The route began at the Santa Monica Pier, where a small crowd of […]
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In Copenhagen, you can check bikes out from the bicycle library
We love a good bike share, but you have to admit that the bikes all look the same. Meanwhile, people’s bicycle preferences and needs are as varied as … well, as their taste in books. Which is why Copenhagen, always first with the bike innovations, lets you borrow bikes from the bicycle library.
