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Celebrate snow-free protected bike lanes Good news for Chicago’s swiftly expanding population of year-round cyclists: The city now has a dedicated snow plow for protected bike lanes! The snow plow is the result of a grant from the company that makes Advil pain reliever. Come join a ribbon-cutting for the new snow plow at the corner of Damen Avenue and Jackson Boulevard at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, December 7. The event will feature a bike giveaway and a special appearance by Chicago Bears legend Richard Dent. At the event, Advil will be giving away a number of   Gotham1 folding bikes,  built by Citizen Bike (retail value $289). If attending, please RSVP via email to  joanne.tam@ketchum.com . [continue reading at Active Transportation Alliance]

Editor's note: Although this story was posted earlier today, this is a full version of the video and worth watching if you are interested in how bikes can make cities more livable. Brian Williams Doesn’t Get How Streets Work. Will His Four Million Viewers? by  Ben Fried  on  December 6, 2011 Here’s  the profile  of New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan that aired on “Rock Center with Brian Williams” last night. The show  reaches more than four million people , which isn’t enough to win its time slot but adds up to a lot more eyeballs than the print circulation of any NYC daily paper. In all likelihood, it reached a bigger American audience than any other piece of media content about reclaiming city streets for public space and more efficient modes of transportation. So how did NBC’s Harry Smith and his producers do with the assignment? Well, in a lot of ways they made the same mistakes that Marcia Kramer and her produce...

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NATE BERG DEC 02, 2011 It'll come as no surprise to cyclists—not to mention irritated drivers—that bike riders tend to have what we might kindly refer to as selective vision when it comes to stop signs and traffic signals. Cyclists regularly run stop signs and signaled intersections when the coast is clear. Momentum is key for the bike rider, and coming to a complete stop when nobody's around is hard to justify. But even so, there's an inherent risk in not obeying traffic laws. A recent study by Portland State students monitored intersections around campus to see how well drivers and cyclists adhered to red lights. As  The Oregonian  reports , the city's bike riders don't give the red light much respect. The  report  [PDF] is available here, and shows that of the 497 cars observed only 36 ran red lights, while 58 of the 99 bicycles observed blew right through. That's about 7 percent of cars compared to 58 percent of bicycles. Two of the three inter...

From his blog: Portlandize is a blog run by Dave Feucht, an average citizen of Portland, Oregon. There are several reasons he feels compelled to keep up this blog. He likes riding his bike around Portland. He feels other people might like it too if they tried it. He believes that bicycles are and will be an important part of the future of city transportation. He thinks Portland and its citizens may have useful insight to offer others on how to accommodate and encourage bicycling. He likes riding his bike around Portland. He likes writing. He likes taking pictures of things. Dave lives with his wife Patrina in inner NE Portland, where they share a small apartment with two cats and a lot of cooking implements which get used on a daily basis for (usually) very tasty experimentation. He also keeps up other online presences at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/poetas http://pin-hole.tumblr.com http://givetothewheat.blogspot.com http://spindulys.blogspot.com He can be contact...

 (Credit: Salon/Mignon Khargie) TOPICS: DREAM CITY In March, New Yorker columnist John Cassidy  blogged  about the city’s new bike lanes. He was annoyed that they made it harder for him to drive his Jaguar around Manhattan, and bemoaned the city’s bicyclists as a privileged, insular aristocracy, a “faddist minority intent on foisting its bipedalist views on a disinterested or actively reluctant populace.” The Internet pounced. Cassidy’s blog posts usually get around a dozen comments. This one got 109, and not all were adoring fans. “The most tone-deaf, philistine commentary I’ve ever seen in these pages,” read one. “Honestly, if you love driving so much, please move to the Midwest,” another suggested. “Philistine and desultory drivel.” Welcome to the new urban order: the Jag-driving New Yorker columnist is a philistine better suited to the suburbs of Wichita. Meanwhile, the city’s bicyclists are an entitled, imperial cabal cruising around on Trek Bellville ...

Just look at that scenery... The Season Episode 2.2 from Fitz Cahall and Bryan Smith on Vimeo . Kevin Landry and Jeremy Norris both moved west to the mountain biking mecca of Squamish with the same goal in mind -- ride as much as possible and create their own vision of mountain biking. As luck would have it, they would move into home right across the street from one another, forge a friendship and begin sniffing around for new lines and trails. Curiosity powers mountain biking's evolution, so Kevin and Jeremy went looking.

In 1933 Horace Dall made an extraordinary crossing of the interior of Iceland, by (or with!) a bicycle, alone and unaided except for assistance by boat across the mighty Tungnna River. His photos presented here with his own notes tell the story... At the end of this gallery follow a few photos from a tour he made the previous year. The photos are most easily scrolled through using the 'next' button. See the Published Work page 'Across Unknown Iceland' for an abbreviated version but with more information on the context of this journey, and more about Horace. [see all the photos here]

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(CNN)  -- A group of urban activists have painted a "guerrilla" cycle lane along a busy stretch of road in the center of Mexico City. The group who call themselves the Make Your City Collective say they took matters into their own hands after local government stalled on its promise to build 300 kilometers of cycle lanes by the end of 2012. "There is a national campaign calling for legislators to allocate at least 5% of the transport budget to non-motorized infrastructure, so we painted a bike lane in front of congress to help promote it," said Jimena Veloz, a member of the Make Your City Collective. The unauthorized five-kilometer path takes commuters to the foot of the city's Congressional Hall, where discussions concerning the future of Mexico's transport infrastructure are currently under way. [continue reading at CNN]

James Schwartz / CC BY 2.0 TreeHugger has covered the tragic death of  Jenna Morrison , the 38 year old pregnant mom squished under the wheels of a truck turning right in Toronto a few weeks ago. Her death has led many to question why there are not separated bike lanes; the usual response from the politicians and the engineers is that there isn't enough room, that you cannot give bikes their own lanes without taking something away from cars, and they don't do that in Toronto. [continue at TreeHugger]