Aaron Donovan

"Join us for EBBC volunteer night. This month we'll be reaching out to folks to renew their memberships. Some volunteers will be doing phonebanking - if you have a cellphone with lots of minutes available, please bring it. EBBC volunteer night an easy way to wind down while enjoying the company of fellow bicyclists and helping out. As usual, dinner is on us. Come on down!"

"The East Bay Bicycle Coalition's General meeting, open to all, will begin with bicycle advocacy updates. From there, our guest speakers will lead an examination of the “Geospatial Revolution and Bicycling.” Our plans include how we can create a digital map-based discussion of various bikeways, document and report hazards to bicyclists, create layers depicting injury crashes involving bicyclists, generate local area maps for our Safe Routes to Schools programs, and siphon off online searches to suggest commuter and recreational bicycle routes. This meeting is an opportunity to brainstorm ways to create truly interactive bicycle mapping that relies on your input and benefits everybody"

East Bay Bicycle Coalition and Institute of Urban and Regional Development/University of California Transportation Center are pleased to host author Jeff Mapes to discuss his book, Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities. The book explores the growing urban bike culture that is changing the look and feel of cities across the U.S. Not only for cyclists, this talk will inspire anyone engaged in transportation, urban planning, sustainability, and public health—and drivers trying to understand why they’re seeing so many cyclists.

Justin BUA, the artist who created one of the best-selling college dorm posters, “The DJ,”—and who is widely recognized as one of Hip-Hop’s most compelling visual artists of all time—has produced an unprecedented visual journey into the urban landscape of the past 30 years in his book THE BEAT OF URBAN ART, which he will be signing at Moe’s Book Store in Berkeley on July 14th at 7:30PM. Moe’s is located at 2467 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94707 and special guest DJ CJ Flash will be spinning.

Thanks all for reading and commenting on our non-motorized honeymoon travel series (see parts 1, 2, 3 and 4). Below is a table Susan put together to briefly summarize some of our observations on the cities we visited.

This is Part 4 of a five-part series on U.S. rail travel. (Parts 1, 2 and 3.)

Part 3 in a series on rail and transit-only travel across the United States focuses on the final three cities of our journey. Part 2 looked at the first three and Part 1 presented an overview of our travel. 

This is the second installment in a five-part rail travel series that began yesterday.

My wife and I were married last month in Brooklyn. For our honeymoon, we wanted to see as many great American cities as we could. In 19 days of travel, we visited Chicago, Seattle, Portland (Ore.), San Francisco, Los Angeles and New Orleans (and also stopped briefly in Cleveland, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Houston, Atlanta, Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia).

Brooklyn