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500 million reasons to rethink the parking lot
All the world is a parking lot -- or a heck of a lot of it is, anyway. But according to professor Eran Ben-Joseph, these places don’t have to be wastelands.
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The best subway map tattoos
There are people who like public transportation, and then there are people who want to rub public transportation all over their body parts — or at least get it permanently inked on them. Here are some of our favorite transit-map tattoos from the internet. Here’s a nice-looking Chicago El map, done large enough that you […]
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NYC learns to heart bicycles
Just over a year ago, New York's transportation commissioner was raked over the coals for her romance with bikes. Now, it seems the city has fallen for them too.
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Stray dog follows bikes for 1,000 miles (and beats most of the cyclists)
This adorable terrier-looking pup was hanging around a group of cyclists when they took a break, so one of them gave her chicken. Well, you know what happens when you give a dog chicken: She never leaves your side again, even if you’re riding your bike from China to Tibet, covering nearly 40 miles a […]
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Giant road lobsters attacking cyclists
We’re gonna need a bigger bike.
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Cape Cod woman finds bike she lost 40 years ago
Forty years ago, in 1970, little Lisa Brown was riding her totally rad banana-seat bike through the woods of Cape Cod. She approached the Herring River, but the only way to cross it was a rickety plank board bridge. When Brown started out on the bridge it was two feet wide, but halfway across it […]
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Congress raises a middle finger to young bicyclists
The federal Safe Routes to School program is making it less dangerous for kids to bike and walk in their communities. So why is Congress trying to slash its funding?
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High school seniors suspended for biking to school
Sixty-four high school seniors biked to school in Walker, Mich. Nice, right? Well, the principal didn’t think so. She suspended the kids for the day and threatened to keep them from walking in their graduation ceremony.
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Here is a dog riding a bike (all by himself!)
And here is my face right now: 8O
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Soda-ad fight bubbles up on NYC transit
The New York City Beverage Association is buying ads on hundreds of subway cars and buses, hitting back against the city's anti-soda campaign.
