The Walking Revolution – 2013
Watch this half-hour video on the benefits of walking — from preventing heart disease, depression and diabetes to managing your weight. Then take a walk!
Category: Visual
Pedestrian HAWK Signal
HAWK signals are one of many strategies to empower pedestrians trying to cross busy streets. Push the button (yes a beg button, but think of it more as a command button), and the lights, which had been flashing, change to solid red, so cars stop and you can safely and respectably cross the street. This in […]
Friday Photo – Still Not Over it
Gaze into the malevolent triangle. See it for what it is: a massive obscene gesture pointed at you, Citizen. A gesturing appendage wielded by powers in society that view you and your rights with contempt. To soothe yourself, look at this photo of RT Rybak‘s class at the U of M, and pretend they’re showing him […]
Sustainable City Logistics in ʼs-Hertogenbosch
Hat tip to Walker Angell for pointing me to this very interesting video about limiting the number of trucks accessing dense central cities, from Bicycle Dutch. Every year the proud 140,000 inhabitants of ʼs-Hertogenbosch (aka Den Bosch) welcome around 5 million visitors. Every week 5,000 lorries and vans enter the city center to get all […]
Take Me to the River
May 27, 2014 West End, Lowertown, Downtown 13.5 miles The saying “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know” is cliché but often true. Case in point is tonight’s ride to Lambert’s Landing in Lowertown. My friend, Rob Krause, has a brother who is a deckhand on the Mississippi River towboat the Neil N. […]
Odd: Downtown East Station Blanketed in Ads Aimed at Suburban Drivers
If you hang around the Downtown East/ex-Metrodome Station for a few minutes while waiting for the train, you might begin to notice the advertising saturating the platform . It’s hard to miss, in part because it’s literally on every flat thing, and in part because it’s so incongruous, because it’s all about cars and suburban life. It […]
Saturday Music Video: Circles (AK)
Seeing Green (1937) Inside Traffic Lights
(In the, What have we learned in 77 years? Department)
Friday Photo – Big Lake Side Eye
I’ve never ridden the Northstar line. But knowing what I know about it, I think it’s safe to say this house in Big Lake wasn’t expecting to see a train pull up a quarter-mile away, and its reaction is priceless.
Ideas for Twin Cities Bike Builders
When I draw cartoons about imaginary bicycles, I try to make the designs believable and think about how they might actually be constructed. In this first example, the projector bike would be pretty complicated to build, perhaps impossible, but the other three designs wouldn’t be that hard and they might produce bikes that would be […]