[This is a dispatch from Elly Blue’s East Coast Tour. Read more here.] Parker and Sturgis-Pascale catch up with their former intern, Reed College student (and New Haven native) Rose Vickery. (Photos by Elly Blue) New Haven, Connecticut is the birthplace of pizza, hamburgers, and the lollipop. It has the highest rate of public housing … Read more
Happy Monday, folks. – First off, some exciting meta-news: our own BikePortland.org has been accepted by Google as a legitimate news source. Now, when you search news.google.com, our stories may come up, depending on your search terms. If you search for “bicycle portland,” a lot of our stories come up. We’ll have a big party … Read more
“Over the few blocks that I rode, I saw it used in a number of ways, including actual cycling.” While I was in New York City for a few hours on Wednesday on my way from New Haven to Baltimore, I took the Brompton for a rainy ride down the new 9th Avenue cycletrack. The … Read more
Whitney Avenue, shown here atNew Haven’s northern border, is ready for a Complete Streets makeover(Photos by Elly Blue) New Haven, Connecticut, which has never been known for progressive transportation initiatives, is now home to a Complete Streets law — one of only a handful in the country, and one of the most comprehensive. When I … Read more
Yoga and bicycling have more in commonthan you’d think.(Photo provided by Ellee Thalheimer) In Portland, sometimes it seems like there are nearly as many yoga instructors as people on bikes. In fact, those two populations often seem to co-mingle. A number of yoga studios around town offer deals for patrons who show up to class … Read more
“Whether you drive a hybrid or an SUV, your car is a cash-guzzler. Families trying to save real money should consider going without.” It may be a true sign of change when the Wall Street Journal suggests that giving up your car could be good for your personal finances and the economy as a whole. … Read more
Happy new year, everyone! – There has been a lot of editorial page pontification in the last week about what our cities’ transportation policies should be in 2009. Here are a handful: The Hartford Courant, which I’ve been reading, wants better public transportation and restoration of historic train stations. A province in Rwanda has banned … Read more
The view from my old bus stop on Whitney Ave hasn’t changed much in 20 years.The white band on the center pole marks the stop, in lieu of a sign.(Photos by Elly Blue) After a warm, dry week, New Year’s Eve brought us another big snowstorm here in Hamden, Connecticut (my hometown, just north of … Read more
[BikePortland.org’s Managing Editor Elly Blue is currently on an East Coast Tour. This is the latest dispatch from her trip.] The Devil’s Gear is a focal point for New Haven biking.(Photos by Elly Blue) When I lived in New Haven a decade ago there wasn’t much of a bike scene. People biked, as did I … Read more
Sam, Caleb, Finn, the Brompton, and me. (Photo by Sarah Armstrong) I just wheeled the Brompton into the Publick Cup, a downtown New Haven coffeeshop, and found myself surrounded by a crowd of wide eyed young people. “Is that a bike? It folds? It’s a folding bike? Can you unfold it for us?” The kids … Read more
[This story was written by BikePortland.org Managing Editor Elly Blue. She’s on an East Coast Tour. Follow her adventures here.] New Haven Mayor John DeStefano (in center) about to cut the ribbon on a new bridge over a newly paved section of the Farmington Canal Trail.(Photos by Elly Blue)
“It’s just a bummer that occasionally the bike lanes end up being the snow plow lanes and there are mounds of snow coming my way!”— SW Portland resident Adam Ortman, speaking to KGW TV I haven’t been following the news as closely as usual this week, but here are some interesting stories I’ve come across … Read more