Treadly and Me

Both cool and daggy

Spotted outside the post office in Elzabeth St, this cool fixie—complete with rack (including milk crate lashed on with bungee cords) and cute blue bell. Cool and daggy at the same time—I love it!

Decongestant

Bike commuters in Delhi are doing their bit for the environment, even if it might be called an extreme sport [via Commuting by bicycle]

"Do we really have to have a car?"

The Cave family are no rope-thin, lycra-clad fitness freaks, but that didn't stop them replacing their car with bikes. And it sounds like they're loving their utility cycling lifestyle. [via Carectomy]

And while we're on the topic, you might want to have a look at Designing Cities for People, Rather than Cars…

Not surprisingly, car-dependent cities have more congestion and less mobility than those that offer a wider range of commuting options. The very vehicle whose great promise was personal mobility is in fact virtually immobilizing entire urban populations, making it difficult for rich and poor alike to move about.

Photos

Sad, poignant and funny photos of bikes that have been left behind, at Abandoned Bicycles of New York.

World's Greatest Bike Lock But where do you keep it while you're riding?

Public transport governance

The Public Transport Users Association started the year by launching a study of public transport governance, comparing public transport management around the world, and looking at the past and future of Victoria's public transport.

Bike Blog .au

After 279 days, Alex Simmons is pedalling again. Go you good thing.

And more Australians blogging their bikes:

• a woman and a fixed wheel
• hippyblog
• Liz Randall
• Mums Wobblings
• Peta Mullens

Comments

hielke 19 Jan 2008

On designing cities for people and not cars. The Age (19/01/08) had a nice example of what happens when the incentives are not right. In this case in Venezuela:

"If it gives us nothing else, at least the Government lets us have our own petrol this cheap," Ms Padron said.

"It may be crazy and have no logic, but I'm not complaining. Nobody is."

That is the problem. The subsidy warps the economy, drains government coffers, rips off the poor, pollutes the air and paralyses cities with traffic jams. Yet it is hugely popular and the Government dares not end the insanity.

Treadly and Me 21 Jan 2008

That Venezuela subsidy is bananas, but so deeply entrenched that the government is totally trapped by it. A stark example of what incentives can do.