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I've been shopping on a bicycle with a backpack for 30+ years. I started doing it because I got sick of driving so much, so I started using my bike for errands and shopping.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
In Brickell, or Dubai, it's all about how you roll up
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Traffic calming works!
November 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Just dug up this quote I gave @schmangee.bsky.social for her reported essay, "How to go car-free — or car-light — in Middle America", back when I was still a college student at Georgia Tech.

I've since got an e-bike and switched to journalism but my point still stands.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
“We’ve finally got a critical mass of people that care about living in the city without relying on cars,” said Alex Ip, a student based in Atlanta who uses the city’s passable bus and rail system. “Now the hard part is to translate that into demanding state and regional and local officials to do the work that residents want.”
November 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM