Michigan TV Station: Bikes Are Strange. Buy a Chrysler!

By Brad Aaron
Aug 25, 2008

Check out this "news of the weird" item from WJRT-TV in Flint, Michigan, on last week’s DC bike-share debut:

Not all that surprising, we suppose, on a news site where the day’s top-ranked story is "End of the line for GM’s 3800 V-6." And the station’s view of cycling gets less strange after the jump.

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Santa Monica: This Weekend Tour da Arts Vol. 5 & Spoke Meets To Talk Michigan Avenue Greenway

By Gary Kavanagh | Aug 16, 2013

This Sunday is the 5th edition of the annual Tour da Arts (11am to 5pm at Bergamot Station), put on by the Santa Monica Museum of Art. If you are unfamiliar with the event, it is the premiere mass bike ride meets arts, music and dance event of the year in Santa Monica. If you […]

Michigan Makes Roads Safe for Fuzzy Dice, Not Bikes

By Sarah Goodyear | Oct 16, 2009

From Michigan’s M-Bike.org, a story of misplaced priorities. Apparently the Michigan State Senate unanimously voted this week to strike down a law that prohibited drivers from hanging possibly distracting objects from their rear-view mirrors. The measure is popularly know as "the fuzzy dice bill." As M-Bike.org points out, the same lawmakers can’t seem to find […]

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Trying to Lure Google? Better Have Mixed-Use, Walkable Development

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 15, 2011

Around the Network today: A mega-employer demands more sustainable development near its headquarters, a city launches bike sharing, and NIMBYs resist sidewalks. Google Wants Mixed-Use Development: Scaledown reports on what Google wants from the city where its global headquarters are located: mixed-use development and residential density. In a letter to the city of Mountain View, […]

Santa Monica City Council Approves Plans for Greenway, Safe Routes to Samohi

By Lindsey Miller | Feb 12, 2014

The Santa Monica City Council took a historic vote last night to approve the conceptual design for the city’s first greenway on Michigan Avenue. The goal for the Michigan Ave. Neighborhood Greenway (MANGo) is to reduce and slow car traffic primarily through street design changes, making biking and walking through the neighborhood a safer and […]

Santa Monica: Public Process Begins For Michigan Avenue Neighborhood Greenway

By Gary Kavanagh | Mar 22, 2013

This past Saturday marked the beginning of the public process for a proposed Michigan Avenue Neighborhood Greenway in Santa Monica (a video of the concept for the unfamiliar). This is one of the more high profile projects called for in the early scope of Santa Monica’s Bike Action Plan, although the greenway concept goes far […]

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Capital Bikeshare Winning Hearts, But How Will It Change the Streets?

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 5, 2010

It’s been a scant few weeks since Washington, D.C. launched the country’s largest bike-sharing system, but Capital Bikeshare is already being heralded as a big success. More than 2,000 people have become system members, more than the city’s smaller, privately-run system, SmartBike, garnered during its troubled two-year lifespan. Overall the new system is generating a […]