Do the Wiggle tour (on foot!)

Celebrate the route bicyclists use to avoid hills--the Wiggle! A natural history of the Wiggle with plenty of social history thrown in. Walk up toward the Panhandle stopping here and there to view the distant past, then come back down the Wiggle through the most recent century of bike culture.

By Aaron Donovan

10:14 AM PST on February 1, 2010

Celebrate the route bicyclists use to avoid hills–the Wiggle! A natural history of the Wiggle with plenty of social history thrown in. Walk up toward the Panhandle stopping here and there to view the distant past, then come back down the Wiggle through the most recent century of bike culture.

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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