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5 of the Best Bicycle Blog Posts of 2011
Here at This Big City, we believe that encouraging bicycle use is a key ingredient in developing more sustainable cities. We’ve featured hundreds of articles on that topic in 2011, and here’s 5 of the best: Making Cycling Safer – What Does the Research Tell us? As cycling becomes more popular in cities all over the globe, shouldn’t we...[read more]
Bike Share Is Coming to New York City!
New York City announced its long-awaited bike share program today, and it’s going to be huge. How huge? Well, they’re talking about 10,000 bikes at 600 stations. Launch date is set for the summer of 2012. Next summer, New York will have bike share stations for real. The city awarded the contract to Alta Bike Share, which is behind...[read more]
Capital Bikeshare Expansion Faces Challenges At U.S. National Mall
According to the National Park Service, Capital Bikeshare stations would destroy what makes the National Mall an American institution. Do you agree? Photo by Mr. T in DC. An article in this month’s Spokes magazine, calls to question a recent debate on installing Capital Bikeshare stations in the capital’s National Mall. Currently, the...[read more]
Social Bicycles: Bikeshare Everywhere
From Kickstarter.com, a project for social bicycles: We need your help to introduce a flexible, scalable, and affordable bike sharing system that makes cycling more accessible and interactive. Over the last few years, bike sharing has spread across the world and become a new transportation alternative in cities such as Paris, London,...[read more]
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“I agree I think that the nature of human interaction and involvement depends on the nature of the actual facility itself. Getting people in and around fossil fuel burning power plants is seen as a security risk, but that still leaves many components of our infrastructure that could benefit from being noticed (and that citizens could benefit from noticing). I think of examples like John ...”
“I thinks it's provocative. In Florida, we were given tours of muncipal water treatment facilities as children, less so access to energy facilities. There is a cogeneration facility at MIT that sits comfortably in the urban context, as thousands pass by daily. But I'm always concerned that critical systems and humans should not mix for the most part. Educational programs may make the same point ...”