Take part in the Great British Walking Challenge
If you’re looking to lose weight, get fit, make new friends or explore your local area, then national charity Living Streets has an idea for you. Why not take part in its Great British Walking Challenge?
The challenge, which lasts the whole month of May, is free to enter. [...]
Joyride tells the story of how Portland, Oregon got started on the path to becoming the Copenhagen, the Amsterdam, the bicycling mecca of the United States. It focuses on the years from 1993 to 1999 when author Mia Birk worked as the city’s Bicycle Program Coordinator. Portland in the early 1990s was car-centered like most [...]
House Republicans, who control the U.S. House of Representatives, are launching a massive assault on the environment. Their latest five-year transportation bills would eliminate funding for mass transit, high-speed rail, and bicycle and pedestrian improvements, decrease funding for Amtrak, and expedite environmental reviews of proposed oil and gas drilling projects. It [...]
On a cold November night in Portland, Oregon, as police in riot gear attempted to evacuate the Occupy campers from a downtown park, a contingent of about fifty bike riders took to the streets. Circling the blocks, slowing car traffic, riding around and around, ringing their bells, they were an important part of the [...]
This year Carbusters is chiming in on the Oscar race for Best Picture. We’ve reviewed all nine of the nominated movies for their depiction of transportation. How often are main characters shown driving or riding in automobiles? How often are they shown using alternatives to automobiles? What messages do these movies send about driving and [...]
Regular Carbusters contributor Debra Efroymson has started a blog.
The invasion of our streets by cars causes any number of horrible problems, but perhaps the worst one is our failure to recognize how avoidable the car invasion and all its problems are. We could retake the streets for people; we could redesign existing cities and our [...]
A French collaborative bike mechanics workshop, called “Velorution Ile de France) has created a high-quality isometric biked drawing. The image above is only a portion of what is available.
The image is [...]
If you are a student looking to add tens of thousands of dollars of long term debt, care little about the environment, and want to lump two tons of steel around campus while paying through the nose for insurance, gas, and parking…General Motors has got a perfect deal for [...]
In the last article we turned to the question of where to begin carfree conversions and how to increase density in the carfree areas. The strategy was simple and obvious: start at the transport halts and gradually expand the carfree areas as alternatives to cars and trucks become readily available. We also considered how to [...]
In the Spring of 1904, the world’s first electrified advertisement appeared on a bank in New York at the corner of Broadway and 46th Street, in what was soon to be called Times Square. In many ways, this event anticipated the beginnings of the modern hyper-commercialized city. Roughly one hundred years later, the pedestrianization of [...]
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