July 2003
Community Bike Programs
An interesting study done for the Free Yellow Bike program at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. Covers automated systems, bike racks and different types of community bikes including scooters.
Related: their CommunityBike.org wiki with links to other city / community bike programs.
A page on the city bike program in Copenhagen.
Isn't it about time Montreal had one of these?
Government to Cyclists: Drop Dead
Great article by Katharine Mieszkowski at Salon.com (click Free Day Pass to read:)
For every bike commuter who proudly pedals to work under the mantra "one less car," Congress has a message for you: Get back on the highway where you belong, burning fossil fuel like a real American. That goes for you, too, you traffic-hazard pedestrians.
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From Parking Lots to Streetcar City
In 2003, city councillor Robert Libman tried vainly to eliminate some of the 240 surface parking lots in the city, to reuse them for housing, parks or public meeting places. Of course the parking lot owners opposed it - it's a license to print money. I just don't see why they can't be converted to underground, privately-operated parking ramps, or the spaces moved to edge-of-town park-and-ride facilities, as used in so many US cities.
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