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Cycling’s biggest trade show — Interbike — is coming soon to Sin City. Thousands of cyclists and retailers will descend on Las Vegas later this week with the fervor of a religious pilgrimage. Except there could hardly be a less bike-friendly destination. In the shadow of the city’s glittering lights and grand casinos, the simple […]

Have you had your morning coffee? Serotonin reuptake inhibitor? Fifth of whiskey? Whatever it is that gets your gears turning? Well, I hope so, because today we’re going to have a look at the latest exercise in mind-bending obfuscation from New Geography’s Wendell Cox. This time, inveterate sprawl apologist Cox has taken issue with an […]

Despite the claims of Scott Walker et al. who say there is no market for intercity rail, the fact is there are a growing number of private companies offering intercity transportation service. One of them is Megabus. Megabus is cheap. Megabus has free WiFi. Megabus doesn’t frisk you and confiscate your toothpaste. Best of all, […]

When you’re walking or biking, you see the world differently than when you’re behind the wheel — it’s a fact. From behind a windshield, a street like the one to the right probably wouldn’t warrant a second thought. To the pedestrian or cyclist, however, these streets can be a perilous obstacle, a foreboding reminder that […]

Opponents of Seattle’s deep-bore tunnel lost a big one yesterday. A voter referendum they hoped might kill the plan to replace the aging Alaskan Way Viaduct with a massive underground highway went down in a 60-40 vote, following a superior campaign by pro-tunnel forces. We’ve reported before how this exorbitantly expensive highway project will retrench […]

Everyone has a few of those hippie friends. They love nature, so they live 50 miles from the city in a 10-acre “farm.” They’re able to grow some of their own food. But they have to commute two hours round trip to get to job opportunities, not to mention the trek to the grocery, church, […]