Showing posts with label Brooklyn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brooklyn. Show all posts

Thursday, July 14, 2011

WHEELS Wednesdays: Progressives Whine About Bike Lanes?

How far behind is the U.S. in accommodating bicyclists? Way behind, according to this Yale piece. And The Atlantic magazine studied the issue and found it was, essentially, college towns that were friendliest toward bicycles. And--as Al Gore might say--another several million tons of pollutants head into our atmosphere, while we fight about it -- even in progressive Park Slope, Brooklyn, where normally progressive urbanites want to help the environment--just not in their neighborhood.