Santa Barbara has it goin on
Portland is more than "all that"
more bike blvd. portland
Bay area secure bike parking for cents/hr
totally cool. i dig the set ups, but i dont necessarily dig the concreate/steel set ups with electronic locks/atm cards. makes me wonder what would happen when the electricity goes out? your bike confined? lock down? and what of a would be "hacker"? could they just break the code and grab bikes?
i like the plastic lockers much better. cyclist provide your own lock. much better.
all very good ideas.
it kills me to see huge parking lots, cramed freeways, and my fellow human strung out on corn syrup, gas, and debt.
all the while, rail has been removed/covered up, for more streets.
people drive themselves crazy with rents/mortgage/carpayments
a fractured/fragmented society confined to boxes of modern convenience credit to the hilt. unable to go 10 miles without gas, bound to bummer jobs.
American community lost.
on the bike, your outside, fresh air, and we say hello.
BBC says that Vanuatu is this years "Happiest Nation".
i wonder how many cars are there vs population.
the human experience is communial
Huxley spoke of "Island Universes", here we live divided by "Concrete Islands"
NYC knows whats up.
as do we
look at the cool Monterey coffee SMR hang out by Tony's shop
take back the streets, and let the people be free, mingle...
"I'm all verklempt. Talk amoungst yourselves." Coffee Talk
check out Project for Public Spaces
and this vid (scroll down a little)
Titled "Public Space Transformations"
Donald Shoup, professor of Urban Planning, UCLA
says that the merchants of downtown Pasadena where reluctant to bring in parking meters, but when the procedes went to renovate the area...well...look at Colorado BLVD today.
world car free network
obviously this is an issue/agenda much larger than VCM
peace...d