http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/01/28/baltimore-bike-lanes/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:03:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/01/28/baltimore-bike-lanes/comment-page-1/#comment-106836 Beth From Velocipede Interview - [tmbchr]â„¢ Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:09:33 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/01/28/baltimore-bike-lanes/#comment-106836 [...] Basically Baltimore is not a bike friendly town, but it is getting better. They have just started putting bike lanes in around town, and fixing some streets. We have a long way to go, but it’s a welcome start. As gas prices rise and more and more people can’t afford to drive everywhere I expect that it will get easier and less scary. [...] [...] Basically Baltimore is not a bike friendly town, but it is getting better. They have just started putting bike lanes in around town, and fixing some streets. We have a long way to go, but it’s a welcome start. As gas prices rise and more and more people can’t afford to drive everywhere I expect that it will get easier and less scary. [...]

]]> http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/01/28/baltimore-bike-lanes/comment-page-1/#comment-104467 Baltimore’s Urban Forest Project - [tmbchr]â„¢ Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:08:29 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/01/28/baltimore-bike-lanes/#comment-104467 [...] Instead of a bunch of trees being planted, 350 artsy banners are being put up for a few weeks around the city with pictures of trees on them… This is a similar tactic the city has undertaken with its new emphasis on “bike lanes”. They aren’t really bike lanes at all, so much as they are regular roads with no shoulder which just happen to have an iconographic picture of a bike painted on them. [...] [...] Instead of a bunch of trees being planted, 350 artsy banners are being put up for a few weeks around the city with pictures of trees on them… This is a similar tactic the city has undertaken with its new emphasis on “bike lanes”. They aren’t really bike lanes at all, so much as they are regular roads with no shoulder which just happen to have an iconographic picture of a bike painted on them. [...]

]]> http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/01/28/baltimore-bike-lanes/comment-page-1/#comment-104195 Believe! In Baltimore’s Blue Light Special - [tmbchr]â„¢ Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:06:41 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/01/28/baltimore-bike-lanes/#comment-104195 [...] Baltimore seems to be involved in a bitter struggle to re-configure itself, or at least its public image. January 2008 kicked off the new-fangled smoking band that all the other “big-shot” cool cities have been doing for the past few years. And they’ve got all these crazy bike lanes and the word “green” written on a bunch of things. And you can go take yoga and buy over-priced sandwiches and smoothies and everything a girl could want… [...] [...] Baltimore seems to be involved in a bitter struggle to re-configure itself, or at least its public image. January 2008 kicked off the new-fangled smoking band that all the other “big-shot” cool cities have been doing for the past few years. And they’ve got all these crazy bike lanes and the word “green” written on a bunch of things. And you can go take yoga and buy over-priced sandwiches and smoothies and everything a girl could want… [...]

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