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Streetfilms: Copenhagen Bike Parade at Velo-City 2010

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jun 29, 2010 | No Comments

Last week, Copenhagen hosted the Velo-City Global 2010 conference featuring over 1,000 attendees, advocates, and bike enthusiasts from all over the world. It was awesome and awe-inspiring. The city that loves biking welcomed us with open arms. On the third night of the conference, Copenhagen did something it doesn’t do often: it held a spectacular bike […]

Thousands Play in the Streets as Oaklavia Transforms Downtown Oakland

By Laura McCamy | Jun 28, 2010 | 7 Comments

Photo: geekstinkbreath Oaklavia transformed a swath of downtown Oakland to a vibrant streetscape Sunday, in its first ever ciclovia-style event, with café seating in the streets, yoga classes, dancers, musicians, food carts and games. More than two thirds of the estimated 3,000 – 4,000 people who turned out to experience the joy of car-free streets […]

Lessons from Copenhagen for Bicycling in the Bay Area

By Leah Shahum | Jun 23, 2010 | 22 Comments

Bicyclists — and blue bike lanes and physically separated bikeways — abound in Copenhagen, where biking makes up 37 percent of the trips to work and school. Photos by Leah Shahum Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of dispatches from Copenhagen and Amsterdam from Leah Shahum, the executive director of the San […]

An Unfinished Freeway Revolt: Car-Free Vancouver Day

By Chris Carlsson | Jun 22, 2010 | 10 Comments

Banner at Car-Free Vancouver Day The organization fighting the massive freeway plan in Vancouver I’m just back from a fantastic five-day visit to Vancouver to help celebrate and publicly ponder Car-Free Vancouver Day. The event started six years ago along East Vancouver’s Commercial Drive (“the Drive” as it is often called there). It has grown […]

The Heyday of Horsecars

By Chris Carlsson | Jun 14, 2010 | 5 Comments

In 1907 the horse was still a major part of the transportation picture, but the horsecars that dominated the 19th century were being replaced. Editor’s note: This is one in an occasional series of stories on the history of transit in San Francisco. After walking through the mud and sand of early San Francisco, locals […]

Technology and Impotence

By Chris Carlsson | May 28, 2010 | 7 Comments

The BP oil spill goes on. And on. We watch the oil on live web cam pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. And we watch. Political rage is muted, practical responses even more distant. What to do? How do we “take action” on something like this? How can individuals meaningfully respond to this catastrophe? Stop driving? Boycott one brand of gas? Stop buying things made of plastic?

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