In Baton Rouge last week, our event was on the same night as a big vote on transit funding. The vote was a big deal – a yes outcome would infuse over $10 million into the area’s struggling transit system, lowering average wait times from 75 to 15 minutes, increasing the number of routes, and […]
Archive | April, 2012
Bikes and fashion (and me) meet in Black...
Posted onThe lady in this photo is Sheilanova Molina y Vedia, our host during our brief stay in Austin two weeks ago, looking chic as she headed out to her office, by bike of course. Though we stayed at her house, we only saw her for a few minutes; she was busy organizing a bicycling fashion […]
Photo contest: Bad streets for bicycling
Posted onI recently posted a link to my coverage last year of our trip to Las Vegas. I believe Vegas may be the worst city for bicycling in the country, and I attempted to capture some of those terrible bicycling conditions in photos. The photo above is one that I snapped of a street where we […]
On tour: Is Houston the next bicycle cap...
Posted on“Houston is the sleeper – the next big bicycle city that nobody knows about yet,” Tom McCasland told us on Thursday. I was, of course, skeptical. My impression of Houston so far was all potholes, unpredictable driving, the chaotic geography of a city without zoning, and only a few sightings of hardy bicyclists. A conversation […]
Introducing "Pedal, Stretch, Breathe": a...
Posted onUpdate: You can now order Pedal, Stretch, Breathe directly right here. It’s an exciting day here at Taking the Lane Media’s mobile headquarters (currently located on a futon in a living room in midtown Houston, Texas). We’re publishing our first title that is entirely by an author who is not me. The zine is Pedal, […]
Tu Familia: An awesome bike safety video...
Posted onThis might be the best transportation related PSA I’ve ever seen (okay, except maybe for the Louisville, KY transit rap, but that’s a tough one to beat). I love it because it conveys the experiences of both the guy behind the wheel and the people unlucky enough to encounter him on the street – and […]
On tour: From the most fit to the least ...
Posted onOne of the best things about being on tour is we get to see the absolute best of the places we visit. And that’s been true this time around, as our friendly hosts have shown us extensively and generously around their cities and neighborhoods. Their love and knowledge of where they live is infectious and […]
On tour: Taking the lane by the grassy k...
Posted onReaders, we made the pilgrimage to Dealey Plaza. The place is an otherwise unremarkable freeway on ramp, marked with potholes that go all the way down to the underlying brick and two white “Xs” in the road marking the place where – or so we heard – a recent group of re-enactors guessed that the […]
On tour: The rental car has its revenge
Posted onYesterday, we returned from a pleasant lollygag by a cool river in Austin to find a terrible, terrible smell emanating from the rental car. We hurriedly unloaded everything in the parking lot until we found the culprit – faulty wiring in the trunk’s light had created sparks, igniting a smoldering fire. Imagine the relief when […]
On Tour: Fort Worth's bikeyest neighborh...
Posted onTexas has been treating us well. We drove down to Fort Worth a day early, fleeing the tornadoes that were threatening Kansas and Oklahoma – which gave us the luxury a long, thunderstormy morning the next day for Joe and I to catch up on work email and for Joshua to get started cooking up […]
On Tour: Getting our kicks on Route 66
Posted onThe view from our venue on Route 66 Our event in Tulsa was part of the second annual “Street Cred” – a weekend-long fair that breathes new life into a decrepit former main street. This year the event was on Route 66 itself, as it passes through the Red Fork neighborhood west of town on […]
On Tour: Trouble in Tulsa, or How to Cre...
Posted onWe’re in Tulsa, where the news this past week has not been good. On Good Friday, five people on a public sidewalk were shot and three were killed; the story is that two men in a truck pulled up alongside, asked for directions, and then opened fire. Two men have been charged and there’s evidence […]
On tour: Farms and strip malls
Posted onWe’ve arrived in Leavenworth, Kansas after a week and a half of alternating between big California cities and the train. This place is fascinating – you wake up on a rural farm and drive five minutes down the road and find yourself on a highway lined with strip malls. Two minutes later you’re winding through […]