It’s ironic, really. That when you drive, you line the pockets of the only country in the world that doesn’t permit women to drive. Or bike. Or take a bus. Or be out by themselves. Meet Manal al-Sharif. She’s now facing the prospects of a public flogging because of the stand she took on her [...]
San Francisco, the city in which I work, recently announced possible plans for a congestion toll to combat high traffic volume downtown during peak periods. The response from my otherwise progressive colleagues was not at all positive. Let’s face it, people already spend a lot on their cars, especially in urban areas. 2008 estimates put [...]
Over the weekend, Jasmine Herron, an artist and regular city cyclist was killed when she was knocked into the path of an oncoming bus by a careless driver’s opening car door. Reading about the tragedy in BikeBlogNYC made me rethink my principle of not sharing stories about cycling accidents. Should I send this to those [...]
Occasionally, I get dressed up. My day job allows me the latitude, in general, to throw on a pair of jeans and whatever wrinkled balled up thing I can find in the bottom of my closet without many people batting an eye. But as I’ve continued on my path to corporate domination through tightly written [...]
I’m not a particularly competitive person, let alone a competitive athlete. My dream car before I threw that whole idea out the window was a Subaru Outback. It’s a station wagon, and I was dreaming of it at age 20. My dreams have moved on to bikes for all the reasons we are well aware [...]