Potholes and Road Apples

The New York Times has an interesting article today on the growing number of business travellers who cycle. They takes bikes with them or rent them where they are going.
Included in the article in an interesting statistic:
According to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey data released last month, there was a 43 percent increase nationally from […]

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The League of American Bicyclists is reporting that 14.3 percent more people commuted by bicycle in 2008 then the year before. And, a whopping 43.3 percent more people commuted by bicycle last year then in 2000.
According to a report in the Biking Bis blog, Pennsylvania was 29th in a ranking of states by percentage of bike commuters. […]

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Bicyclists from across Pennsylvania are being asked to gather in Harrisburg Tuesday for the first statewide bicycle rally.
Bicyclists will gather at the Farm Show Complex, off Cameron Street, beginning at 8:30 a.m. At 9 a.m., they will begin a ride to the state capitol building, at Third and State streets. The rally at the capitol […]

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Quietly tacked onto the end of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill last fall was tax provision that could benefit bicyclists.
A long-sought bicycle commuter tax provision now allows employers to provide regular bicycle commuters as much as $20 a month. The money is intended to be used for expenses related to bicycle commuting, such as […]

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Lancaster City Council members voted Tuesday night to ban riding of bicycles on downtown sidewalks as a pedestrian safety measure.
The ban includes the area bounded by Lemon, Water, Lime and Farnum streets. It will take effect in mid-December.
The city ordinance extends an existing ban on sidewalk riding that covers the four-block area around Penn Square.
Council members narrowly […]

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Trek is taking the simplicity of a single-speed bike and simplified it further in two new models for 2009. On their District and Soho models, Trek is using a new belt-drive system.
The carbon composite belts promise a whisper-quiet ride, no rust, no grease chain-ring tattoos, no chains breaking, slipping or stretching, no lubing, and little to […]

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Late yesterday afternoon, riding in darkness, with lights, just after 5 p.m., I felt the season’s first snowflakes on my face.
They were just flurries falling in Lititz as I pedaled home, but enough so that - at least for a moment - I saw flakes blowing on the road.
Winter, my calendar says, does not officially […]

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Andy Clarke, president of the League of American Bicyclists, made promotion of cycling in Lancaster County sound like a no-brainer … as easy as, well, riding a bicycle.
He made his case this morning before about 45 county and municipal planners, local police officers and bicycling advocates during a workshop at the Lancaster Farm & Home […]

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Lancaster City Council members next week will begin consideration of a measure that would ban the riding of bicycles and skateboards on downtown sidewalks.
A ban already exists within a one-block area centered on Penn Square, at Queen and King streets. The proposal would expand the ban to sidewalks throughout the Downtown Investment District at the […]

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County transportation planners, municipal and county officials are expected to gather Friday morning, from 7:30 a.m. to noon, to hear presentations about how to encourge bicycling in Lancaster County and participate in workshops about steps they can take.
The featured speakers at the workshop is League of American Bicyclists Executive Director Andy Clarke and Bill Nesper, director of […]

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