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Coffee is More Expensive than Owning a Bicycle
written 28 Apr 2009 in the earliest morning
And we’re not talking $4 mochachinos here. According to this BikePGH article, it costs $0.95 / day to own and operate a bike. And you don’t have to tip anyone.
Even that number seems a bit high. Read the rest of this entry »
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Word on the Streets
Good news for peddlers, pedestrians and people who like public ‘portation from our great and all wonderful leader, Barry O, as we call him in the smoking circles I frequent.
$8billion has been allocated to high speed rail development in the USA, thanks to the stimulus plan and my son’s hard-if-yet-be earned money. How much high speed rail does $8billion get you? In today’s world where items are measured in hundreds of millions, it might not seem like a lot, but alas, it’s a giant chunk, just have a peeper’s feast on the imagery below. Yellow = new high speed rails, thin gray equals existing Amtrak rails (Amtrak is also getting it’s own $1.3billion).
Bicycling: Comparing Pittsburgh to Austin
As you probably may or probably may not know, I’m currently on the road, for awhile. Right now I’m staying in Austin, TX and I’m blown away by the biking infrastructure here. If you take a look at what this city has done and then compare it to our own beloved Pittsburgh, it’s both a little heartbreaking and equally inspiring.
Why Cyclists Have to be Assholes
Motorists often feel and state that there isn’t room for bicycles on the street. Some beep and scream and go as far as to try and run people off the road. These people are fools, ignorant to the law, and a disgrace to humanity. Truly, unamerican, at the least, violent criminals at worst.
Three Simple Things to Make You Greener
Just a few easy lifestyle modifications to help you jump on the green bandwagon. Soon enough you’ll be pulling the thing yourself!
- Paper or Plastic? Cloth. Take your own cloth bags to the grocery store. Americans alone use around 65 billion plastic bags every year. Whole Foods recently quit providing the option of plastic, likely because people were choosing it just so they could recycle with the bags.
Added Bonus! Now you can pick up a few large blue tubs and keep your recycling in those. It’s better for the environment and a lot easier to toss your recyclables into the tubs than to try and squeeze them into the bags.
Help Justin Ride His Bike and You Could Do Some Good without Doing Much at All
Justin Chechile is planning on riding his bike from Pittsburgh to my former port town home, Lake Erie. He’s trying to raise some cash to help people suffering from MS on the way. You can help, just pop on over to his page on the MS site and donate whatever you can, $2.50, $5, $9,999, whatever you can afford.
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Pittsburghian Peds and Peddlers get $7M in 2008
Recently the City of Pittsburgh hired a Bicycle / Pedestrian Coordinator to help improve those of use who navigate these streets sans automotech. More recently, Venture Outdoors, an organization that provides resources to active outdoor types trying to experience everything this city’s immediate surroundings have to offer, put out an job advertisement for a Bicycle Coordinator, with a big focus on betting more cycling happening in 2008 for Pittsburgh’s 250 anniversary.
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Pittsburgh Hiring Bicycle / Pedestrian Coordinator
The City of Pittsburgh is finally hiring a dedicated Bicycle / Pedestrian Coordinator who’s primary job function will be to improve the city’s cycling and walking options. This is such great news and one of those monumentous occasions where Pittsburgh takes a nice fat leap into what could be a very progressive future.
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Longing Waning Tides
The incessant constant murmur of whining children, twelve hour, unpaid workdays, and a holiday reminding us all of how much young life has been wasted on an ignorant, near-illiterate Texan has me longing for adventure-time. This year the African and I are planning on pushing peddles down the West Coast – starting at the home of the football team that lost to our city’s football team (I think they’re called the Seagulls) and heading just far enough into California to keep the hippie / plastic surgeon ratio in our favor. Here’s a digital image of the general idea of the ride, though we have no plans to make any real plans. Just sort of show up, rent bikes and go…
