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These fruit-shaped bus shelters make public transit more delicious
Waiting for a bus is never the most fun part of a commute, but if you lived in Isahaya City, Japan, you could at least pretend you were some kind of magic bus-riding mouse in a fairy tale. Bus shelters in the city are sculpted and painted to look like giant fruit.
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New York’s massive new bike-sharing program tripped up by computer problems
Computers don't want bikes to succeed. Computers NEVER want bikes to succeed.
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You can help make this bike-in movie theater a reality
[protected-iframe id=”56fa6e0fc78268992ddb7ec4c39f24da-5104299-30166106″ info=”http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manifold/bike-in-theater-nyc-sf/widget/video.html” width=”470″ height=”350″ frameborder=”0″] Coworkers Jason Anello and Anna Boyarsky set up a bike-in movie theater in Brooklyn last year, and now they want to do it again — but bigger, better, and bicoastal. They’re raising funds on Kickstarter for permits and licensing, because the show itself won’t make any money: The plan is […]
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How to make a tiny car: Just cut a regular car in half
Look, it still totally works!
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19th-century London had a train line just for dead people
Back in mid-19th century England, public transportation was popular enough that even dead people had their own railway. P. D. Smith writes: The London Necropolis Railway station was constructed by the London Necropolis & National Mausoleum Company, specifically to serve their Brookwood Cemetery, 25 miles away in Woking, Surrey. The Company’s logo was, somewhat ghoulishly, […]
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Bike mod lets you ride on train tracks, probably get hit by train
[vimeo 45269200] If you live in a city with a thriving streetcar system, chances are you live in Europe and your burg is pretty bike-friendly anyway. But you have to admit that sticking to the streetcar tracks would make it much less likely for you to be hit by a car, while simultaneously making it much […]
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Blood on the bike path: What a tragic accident teaches us about safely sharing the trails
When an elderly woman was killed in a collision with a bicyclist, commenters on news websites unleashed a flurry of anti-cyclist vitriol. Not only was it unfair, but a few simple rules of thumb might have prevented the whole mess.
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Win a bike by channeling famous authors
Rule No. 1 of Grist List: Never pass up an opportunity to win a free bike. Especially if the opportunity involves the chance to channel P.G. Wodehouse. The Paris Review (TPR), a venerable lit magazine not particularly concerned with green living but very concerned with style and general braininess, is offering up this snazzy Beater […]
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How easy is it to take public transit to work? Depends on where you live
An assessment of the top 100 metropolitan areas in the country finds that most jobs are accessible by transit – but the workers might not be.
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High-speed rail in America: It might possibly actually happen
Maybe. Possibly. But not for a long time. Unless you live in California, in which case it's a slightly less long time.
