Speed records

Dang.

Burley recalls child trailers

FYI!

Sweet job

Who wouldn't want to ride a tricycle around leafy college campuses all day?

FYI

An important reminder from Lance Armstrong.

Transportation fails

You're probably familiar with FAIL Blog, but if not, here are some great examples of transportation fails:

BikeAthens video

playing around with Picasa 3... enjoy!

Presidential inauguration train tied to Ga

Via Atlanta's Creative Loafing.

Whites and bikes

Funny stuff from stuffwhitepeoplelike.com.

Transportation choices

I was looking through my pictures and found this one from a 2007 trip to Spain. This is a street in Sevilla, which was also in the midst of constructing a new subway system.

If you ever wondered what we mean by "transportation choices," this is it:



Multimodality from left to right:
1) a road (with as many buses as cars),
2) 2-way bike lanes, separated from motor vehicle traffic by a fence and a painted buffer, and
3) a wide sidewalk, separated from motor vehicle traffic by bike lanes and from bike traffic by a wide, tree-lined area. Crosswalks clearly marked.

This is how you do it.

Way off topic

This is not Athens-related news at all, but it certainly confirms (as if there were any doubt) that Bob Novak is a jerk.

Way to be, anonymous bike messenger!

Map my Ride

Here's a nice online service, MapMyRide.com, which lets you "Draw your rides, calculate mileage, count calories, share with friends, and much more!"

Thanks to Charlie for the heads up.

Bikes preventing drunk driving

A very interesting piece in the Red & Black describes a new motorized bike-based business, Zingo, that provides designated drivers for downtown drunks.

The newest mode of sober transportation in Athens keeps students from driving drunk if they need their cars the next morning.

Zingo Athens Designated Drivers sends insured drivers to the student's car by motorbike - within 10 minutes of a call - to drive the customer and car home safely after a night on the town.

Full story here.