The Seattle City Council unanimously approved the 10-year Bicycle Master Plan on Monday that one local bike activist called the best in the nation.
Mayor Greg Nickels, who just finished hosting the US Conference of Mayors on Climate Change, says he hopes to triple the number of people who ride bicycles in the city.
The plan calls for spending about $240 million over the life of the plan to build a network of bike lanes, bike routes and multi-use trails criss-crossing the city. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/06/seattle-council-endorses-bicycle-master-plan/
Before Chris Carmichael started advising Lance Armstrong or we had the Scarsdale or South Beach diets, people watched Jack LaLanne on TV to learn about diet and exercise.
Here's what the 93-year-old is saying now:
“Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Together, you’ve got a kingdom. If you have a Corvette, you don’t put water in the tank. The human machine deserves the same treatment. No cake, pies, ice cream, soda. Your hair is out of shape. Your skin is terrible. Your elimination is bad. The wrong fuel in the human machine does that. …
“Would you give your dog a cup of coffee and a doughnut?” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/05/93-year-old-fitness-guru-jack-lalanne/
More than once, I've been cut off by a Metro bus pulling to the curb to drop off a passenger. It's bad driving, but nothing compared to the addlebrained recklessness shown by operators of India's Blueline buses.
The Blueline bus fleet has caused 103 deaths in India so far this year. The country's media calls them variously “killer buses” and “rogue buses,” names formerly bestowed on rampaging herds of elephants.
Official enforcement seems ineffective, so local residents are taking matters into their own hands. After the October 25 death of a cyclist who was run down by a speeding bus, a mob torched and gutted the bus as the operator fled …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/05/death-toll-from-india-busline-tops-100-pedestrians-and-cyclists/
Just for the record, Lance Armstrong finished the 2007 New York City Marathon in 2-hours 46-minutes, beating his inaugural run last year by 13 minutes.
The official marathon website listed Armstrong as finishing 233rd, although other reports put him in the low 600s. Some 39,000 ran in the marathon on Sunday.
The news source that seems to have more coverage of Armstrong than any other, E! Online, also reported that Ashley Olsen was “nowhere to be seen” at the finish line. Apparently the two were seen together earlier this week playing kissy-face …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/05/lance-armstrongs-marathon-finish-latest-headline-in-strange-week/
The Seattle city council is set to vote on the 10-year Bicycle Master Plan at Monday's meeting, starting at 2 p.m. at City Hall.
People can comment on the master plan at the start of the council meeting, so this would be a perfect time to show up and directly tell council members what you think of it.
The document calls for adding 135 miles of bicycle lanes or bike routes to the city's 67-mile network over the next three years. Also, the “last mile” of the Burke-Gilman bike trail to Ballard would be completed …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/04/seattle-bicycle-master-plan-goes-to-vote-at-monday-meeting/
Many of the rails-to-trails routes in Washington state are suitable for skinny-tired road bikes. In fact, more than half of the 63 rails-to-trails in the state have surfaces that road bikes can handle.
Not the Klickitat Trail in southern Washington. One of the most remote rails-to-trails in the US, it is recommended that visitors use mountain bikes, preferably with front suspension.
The 31-mile trail is the trail-of-the-month for the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. The trail starts in Swale Canyon then hooks up with the meandering Klickitat River, nationally designated as a Wild and Scenic River. It ends at the confluence of the Klickitat and Columbia rivers (above). …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/04/klickitat-trail-welcomes-mountain-bikers-in-southern-washington/
A Ventura County (California) jury has awarded $12.5 million to the family of a bicyclist who died when he was rear-ended by an 82-year-old woman in the fall of 2006.
It was the second rear-end accident in six months for the woman, who had learned about a month prior that she had severe cataracts in both eyes.
The cyclist, Glenn Garvin, was …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/03/big-award-in-california-cyclists-death/
(Update: The Bicycle Diaries blog says the feds bailed out Chicago, 'til the end of the year. If there's no help after Jan. 1, Da Square Wheelman says commuters are emailing their favorite routes to CBF for others to use.)
As Chicago's bus system prepares to make drastic cutbacks beginning Sunday, the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation has prepared a Doomsday Survival Guide that's available online.
Chicago Transit Authority is cutting nearly 40 bus routes and laying off 600 transit workers on Sunday because of funding problems. That means many of Chicago's 1.5 million daily bus commutes will have to find an alternative way to work.
Promoting the wise use of bicycles, Chicagoland Bicycle Federation's guide is subtitled “Car-Free Alternatives for Chicago's Mass Transit Crisis.” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/02/check-with-chicagoland-bicycle-federation-to-survive-doomsday/
(This is the first in an occasional series of my favorite memories from bicycling — a bike tour from Cincinnati to Hueston Woods in 1965.)
My first bicycle tour came at the tender age of 15. I can't believe my mother agreed to it; I certainly wouldn't approve of such a venture for my own son at that age.
My good friend Steve and I had been caddying at a country club all summer. I'd catch a ride to work with Steve's dad then hitchhike home after carrying some guy's bag for 18 holes.
I don't know who came up with the bicycling idea. We were always scheming. I do remember looking at a road map of Ohio and seeing there was a place called Hueston Woods State Park that had a campground symbol. It was near Oxford, which was 35-some miles from Cincinnati. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/02/good-times-taking-my-first-bike-tour/
“I went out and bought a hybrid and it's not getting the gas mileage I was hoping for, so I'm thinking, 'OK, well, I'll stick with this until the hydrogen fuel cell cars come around.' Still, I ride a bicycle when I can. Of course, I live way the hell up a very steep hill …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/02/quote-grateful-deads-bob-weir-still-bicycling/
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