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Sunday, July 15, 2007
A New French Revolution's Creed: Let Them Ride Bikes, About a dozen sweaty people pedaled bicycles up the Champs-Élysées on Sunday toward the Arc de Triomphe, as onlookers cheered. These were not the leading riders of the Tour de France racing toward the finish line, but American tourists testing this city's new communal bike program. "I'm never taking the subway again," said a beaming Justin Hill, 47, a real estate broker from Santa Barbara, Calif. More >>
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Free bus service: Is it viable?, Island Transit makes it work, but larger urban areas have tried and failed. Kristen Cooley thanks a bus for the fact that she can afford to live in the Whidbey Island community of Freeland -- one she doesn't have to pay to ride. "I couldn't afford to drive back and forth" to a job in Coupeville, she said while riding to work recently on the Route 1 bus through South Whidbey's forested hills. "It allows me to live where I live." More >>
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Bike ... Walk ... Public Transportation ... Carpool? Data Shows How Commuters Get to Work, San Francisco tops the nation when it comes to the percentage of its labor force working at home. According to data recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau... More >>
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