Cartoon Tuesday
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Cartoon Tuesday: The Joke in on Al Queda
Just something to think about as Congress continues to debate how best to fund our transportation system in the coming months.
May 10, 2011
Cartoon Friday: Beware
On February 19, 2010, the Portland City Council passed a Bike Plan. Just like we saw this week, Portland's Mayor announced a funding mechanism to make the plan a reality. For Portland, it was the $20 million "kickstart." For Los Angeles, it's the steady trickle of Measure R local return funds. But nevertheless, the day after Portland passed its Bike Plan, the super-blog Bike Portland printed this cartoon. Consider it part joke, part history lesson and part warning.
March 4, 2011
Road Rage, Disney Style
The tale is one that is familiar to us all. A model citizen is kind to friends, family and neighbors alike. He stops and smells the flowers. He walks around an ant.
January 21, 2011
YouTube FaceOff: Rapping Bike Safety v Animal Traffic Engineers
Two YouTube videos have been making the rounds amongst Streetsblog readers in the past couple of days, and both have tickled the funny bone for different reasons. Given that things have been a little denser than usual here, heck even our recent polls required some study, I thought I'd break up the grind before going back discussing tomorrow's Metro Board Meeting.
December 8, 2010
Cartoon Tuesday: Bear Sprawl
Earlier this year, I saw this comic at Salon about what would happen if other species embraced sprawl development, especially into other animals' habitat, in the same way that humans do. This comic came back to mind after the SCAG Board decided to choose sprawl development over a chance to make history and clean our air through smart growth. Click through to see what happens when Bears decide to sprawl out of the forest.
September 14, 2010
Cartoon Tuesday: Who Pays?
There have been so many depressing plots surrounding the ongoing horror story unfolding at Deepwater Horizon. It's sort of a "pick your poison" buffet catastrophe: helpless animals coated in oil, the universal inability to figure out a way to stop the darned thing from gushing to say nothing of the destruction of tourism, fishing and countless other industries.
July 6, 2010
Cartoon Tuesday: What in the World?
A couple of weeks ago, Brad Aaron posted a gem of a video by Mark Fiore about aliens landing on earth and getting confused by our transportation system. Seriously? We run our vehicles on dinosaur juice?
June 8, 2010
Cartoon Tuesday: Biking to Work with Yehuda Moon and Kickstand Cycling
In honor of Bike to Work Week in Los Angeles, I thought I would bring back "Cartoon Tuesday" with a favorite bicycling comic. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find a comic that amused as much as this drawing on the wall of Gavin Newsom's communications office, so I was at a loss.
May 18, 2010
Cartoon Tuesday: Sesame Street and Bus Stops
Before I sign out for the holidays, I wanted to give you some homework to help me out. One thing that Sammy responds to when we're trying to get him to sleep is singing. Being a good Streetsblogger, I'm trying to give him as many songs about transit or biking as possible. I haven't found a song yet that celebrates dense urban development.
November 24, 2009