biking
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Bipedal? Curious? Americans give walking and biking a try
More Americans are opting to walk or bike, rather than driving a car. Apparently, that message hasn’t gotten through to Congress.
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This guy doesn’t get off his bike for ANYTHING
Anyone can commute on a bike. Only filmmaker Guillaume Blanchet also sleeps, showers, cooks, eats, shops, and dates without getting off his favorite two-wheeled conveyance.
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Did NYPD falsify account of cyclist’s death?
In October of 2011, a truck hit and killed artist Mathieu Lefevre while he was biking in Brooklyn. Since then, Lefevre’s family and their lawyers have been trying to find out what exactly happened that night. The NYPD’s investigation includes descriptions of surveillance footage showing Lefevre trying to pass a truck on the right. But […]
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House Republicans’ transportation bill contains zero good policy
House Republicans are going to unveil their transportation bill today, and it is expected to have a ton of backwards ideas in it. These include: Spending more money on highways than anything else Encouraging private companies to expand highways and charge for the use of those lanes Funding highway work through oil and gas drilling […]
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LeBron James bikes to work
The Miami Heat star was avoiding a traffic jam when an alert Twitter user snapped his picture.
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Bike-a-Bee does beekeeping by bike
Jana Kinsman’s startup Bike-a-Bee will be a distributed network of beehives in the Chicago area — Kinsman will hook up local urban farms and gardens with bees, which will help pollinate the plants while also producing honey. (Greenspaces that host a beehive get a share of the honey profits.) Meanwhile, Kinsman will care for the […]
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Ride the line: What one activist learned biking the Keystone XL route
"Renewable rider" Tom Weis biked the over 2,000 miles of the U.S. portion of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline route, learning along the way that opposition to the project doesn't fall along party lines.
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Swedish cities could connect via bike superhighway
In Sweden, city planners and the country’s traffic authority are looking into building a four-lane bike superhighway between the university town of Lund and Malmö, Sweden’s third-largest cities and one of its most diverse. Cities like London have invested in protected lanes that they call “bike superhighways,” but this one would be one of the […]
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Critical List: Cruise ship could leak oil; Chevron rig catches fire
That capsized cruise ship in Italy could leak thousands of tons of fuel into a national maritime park. A four-lane bicycle superhighway could go up between the Swedish cities of Malmo and Lund. Rusty on your climate science? This open University of Chicago course covers climate research without getting too technical. Commercial agricultural projects in […]