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Goodbye Possibility City...
[from Tonya] My husband and I really thought this was a Possibility City when we moved here in 2005. We lived in the cheap, extremely polluted, neighborhood called Rubbertown while we worked on updating our work experience, education, and fixing our finances. We met some great people and had fun
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Day 176 of My Car-Free Experiment – Time For Car-Free Happy Hour
Today's picture: Save the date and leave your keys at home. Next Tuesday is your chance to join the active transportation movement at Louisville's monthly Car-Free Happy Hour. You'll see posters like this one popping up all over town. Louisville's monthly Car Free Happy Hour started last fall. It's
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Mar 9, 10
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Day 174 of My Car-Free Experiment – You Get a Charge Out of This
Today's picture: Electric bikes. They're not in Louisville shops yet, but plan on seeing them soon. The Yike Bike folds to carry on a bus or train. It requires no effort. But isn't that kind of defeating the point? Electric bikes and electric-assist bikes are taking off in Europe. I'm
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Mar 7, 10
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Day 160 of My Car-Free Experiment – It's Travel Well Orchestrated
Today's picture: He's our invisible bicyclist, Matt Milewski, 33, a violinist in The Louisville Orchestra. I met Matt at a traffic signal on Main Street back on Feb. 3, when we were both in a hurry to get to work. If you're headed downtown in the morning, watch out for
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Feb 22, 10
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Day 157 of My Car-Free Experiment – 'Other Side' of the Tracks
Today's picture: It's another video – a really important one for anyone who rides a bike. You see, most cities aren't yet up to speed, so to speak, with making streets safe for bicycles. My cycling pals Tom Armstrong and Dave Morse sent me this from STREETFILMS: CAUTION! If you
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Feb 20, 10
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Day 152 of My Car-Free Experiment – Pushing The Envelope Is Risky
Today's picture: That's me on the right. I was eight years old when I received a Steve Canyon Fighter Jet and Helmet for Christmas in 1959.
On Christmas Day, 1959, my two sisters received look-alike dresses, white faux-fur hats for Sundays, and dolls – all the very latest stuff, to be sure.
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Feb 16, 10
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Day 151 of My Car-Free Experiment – Bike Move Hauls Whole Office
Today's picture: This post includes a photo essay on Flickr with 235 images of people on bikes hauling furniture and office equipment and supplies. Bicycling For Louisville invited volunteers to help move their office from South Second St., downtown, to Frankfort Ave. in Clifton. About 20 cyclists s
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Feb 14, 10
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Call for Cyclists: Human-powered Moving Party!
Get free coffee and snacks, and have fun putting your bicycle to good work! Bicycling For Louisville, the local bike advocacy non-profit, is moving its office from downtown to the much more pedal-friendly Clifton and they need your help. They're organizing a human-powered move from their old office
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Feb 12, 10
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Day 146 of My Car-Free Experiment – Two Roads Diverged in a wood
Today's picture: It started out as a sweet mountain bike ride downtown in the snow. But instead of taking my usual bike route, I took the road more traveled – and that made all the difference. I should have listened to Robert Frost this morning when I ventured out in
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Feb 9, 10
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Day 143 of My Car-Free Experiment – And a Friend Goes 'Car-Lite'
Today's picture: It's "Car-Free Happy Hour." If you enjoy leaving your car keys at home – even if only occasionally – join walkers, TARC riders, and bicyclists who take the road less traveled, too. This month it's Tuesday, Feb. 16, at The Bodega on E. Market St. My friend Dominic
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Feb 6, 10
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Day 139 Car-Free: Computers are like a bicycle for our minds.
Today's Picture: It's in motion. A nifty little YouTube film clip my son Adam sent to me. You'll hear Steve Jobs compare computers and bicycles. Steve Jobs, "Computers are like a bicycle for our minds." When Steve Jobs, one of the most innovative minds in the computer world today says,
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Feb 1, 10
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Bikes and Cars: Better Together
I've been blogging at panglott.blogspot.com for most of the past year, but I thought I'd crosspost this response to Bikes vs Cars: The Unsolvable Problem. Although he's a fan of the pedal, Holland's main point is that because sometimes traffic collisions happen, it's impossible for bicycles and cars
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Jan 27, 10
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Day 133 of My Car Free Experiment - Time Flies When You Have Fun
Today's picture – One-third of a year into My Car-Free Experiment and I have a 30-day review of my new Roadster. Today's dusting of snow glazed the streets, but presented no big problem for me on my bicycle. I took it slow all the way to work and contemplated the
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Jan 26, 10
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Day 129 of My Car-Free Experiment – Let's Outlaw Good, Clean Fun!
Today's picture: Looks like good, clean fun to me! But State Representative David Osborne (R) wants to outlaw carting kids by bike. I can't think of anything more out of step with public health and safety. Protection? Really? Rep. Osborne's HB255 would "...prohibit the operation of a bicycle on a
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Jan 23, 10
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Day 127 of My Car-Free Experiment – Yeah, I Love a Rainy Night
Today's picture: He's our "invisible bicyclist, Jacek, Gordinier, a 22 year old undergraduate mathematics student at U of L. He's originally from Elbl?g, Poland. He moved here at age six with his mother and brother. A few days ago Jacek learned that a parked motorists will attempt a sudden U-turn
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Jan 21, 10
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Day 124 of My Car-Free Experiment – Meet Pete,
Today's picture: Pete Manning has been using a bicycle for transportation for about four years. His bike is a vintage, pre-1970 Schwinn Suburban. "Sure, I have a car," said Manning, on a chilly Friday night in mid-January. "This is for my health. You can't beat it. My doctor got me
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Jan 19, 10
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Day 125 of My Car-Free Experiment – It's Time To Slow Down!
OOPS! I've been in too big a hurry lately. And in my haste, I completely botched the name of a featured bicycle commuter here on my blog, so ... I'm re-posting this great collection of images and words about Michelle Bingham and her new Electra Amsterdam bicycle. No, her name
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Jan 19, 10
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Protest for Pedestrian's Rights
CART (Coalition for the Advancement of Regional Transportation) is urging citizens to attend an event to help support the rights of pedestrians. The get-together is TODAY, 4pm to 6pm, on the street and on the sidewalk around 1401 Bardstown Road. The impetus for this is a large construction-site fenc
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Jan 18, 10
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Day 122 of My Car-Free Experiment – Euro Vélo in Louisville
Today's picture is a whole slideshow: Michelle Bingham is Euro-stylin' on her new Electra Amsterdam! With the addition of every bicycle the streets become just a little safer. And as this collection of photos proves, the streets become a lot more picturesque! Click here for Flickr slideshow OK, here
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Jan 16, 10
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