Trips for Kids/Re-Cyclery Benefit Sale
"Sale to benefit Trips for Kids and Re-Cyclery."
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Trips for Kids Benefit Sale
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Trips for Kids is opening its San Rafael warehouse to the cycling community.
Trips for Kids’ 12th annual “Brews, Bikes and Bucks” Fundraiser
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"Join Trips for Kids at a benefit party with food, drinks, music and a great bike raffle."
BART Invites Transit Bloggers to Query GM Dugger, Part I
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Greg Dewar of N-Judah Chronicles, BART GM Dorothy Dugger, BART Spokesperson Linton Johnson. Photo: Matthew Roth Last week, BART hosted a brunch meeting for Bay Area transit bloggers, explicitly acknowledging that journalism is trending away from traditional media to online and niche outlets. Organized by BART spokesperson Linton Johnson, writers from Streetsblog, The SF Appeal, […]
Is E-Commerce Increasing Urban Truck Traffic? Don’t Be So Certain
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The conventional wisdom holds that the boom in online retail is causing a big increase in truck traffic. But economist Joe Cortright at City Observatory is skeptical. Reviewing a recent Brookings Institution analysis of decades of federal freight traffic data, which found skyrocketing growth, Cortright says the picture changes once you take into account how U.S. DOT changed its methodology after 2006: Over […]
Capital Bikeshare Winning Hearts, But How Will It Change the Streets?
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It’s been a scant few weeks since Washington, D.C. launched the country’s largest bike-sharing system, but Capital Bikeshare is already being heralded as a big success. More than 2,000 people have become system members, more than the city’s smaller, privately-run system, SmartBike, garnered during its troubled two-year lifespan. Overall the new system is generating a […]
CalSTA Rep: Let’s Make Biking and Walking the First Choice for Short Trips
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CalSTA, the state agency that oversees all state transportation departments including Caltrans, is committed to improving conditions for transit, biking, and walking, according to its Deputy Secretary for Environmental Policy and Housing, Kate White. “Thirty percent of all trips in California are less than a mile,” said White, testifying at a legislative hearing yesterday in […]