In solidarity with the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca, or APPO, I want to bring attention to their plight in Oaxaca. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, this Guardian article is a decent place to start. I traveled to Oaxaca in the summer of 2005, and I can share some [...]
Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors, while one moved about freely– in which the muscles are not celebrating a feast too. – Nietzche
Pictures from a backpacking trip to Pisgah a few weekends back. The hike in… The view the second day… The view the third day… Note the Blue Ridge Parkway near the top of the closest ridge.
A white and black fluffy-haired cat sits on the bike path most mornings, just south of the Apex Street bridge. It doesn’t panic when I approach, like the mourning doves, rabbits, and squirrels do. It doesn’t dart in front of me in a poorly conceived plan to avoid my bike. It just sits and lazily [...]
Even though I haven’t updated it since February, I still get a lot of email and web traffic because of a Durham cycling map I made last year. At the time, Google Maps had just released its API to allow developers to experiment with. I quickly learned I was out of my element, unable to [...]
November 2nd 6:00-8:00 p.m. Fletcher Opera Theatre Raleigh, NC The Raleigh Urban Design Center, a division of the City Planning Department, with support from Kimley-Horn and Associates, the Triangle Transit Authority, and the Raleigh Convention Center, will present a lecture on parking management by Dr. Donald Shoup, Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA, and author [...]
Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, now advises other major cities on transportation policy. Under Peñalosa’s tenure, Bogotá (a city of about 7 million people) established a very successful annual Car Free Day and reprioritized integrating bike- and pedestrian-friendly infrastructure into the city’s transportation policy. He’s now a senior fellow at the Institute for [...]
Joe Miller, outdoors columnist for the N&O, put together this nice map of a 14 mile route along Wake County’s Black Creek and Reedy Creek greenways using Umstead State Park as a connector. Click the image to download a high quality pdf of the map. (Edit: Link updated. Thanks Paul for pointing out the broken [...]
From Roxanne Hall, at Durham Habitat for Humanity The spooktacular Halloween 100 on Sat., Oct., 28 benefits Habitat for Humanity of Durham. Enjoy scenic views of Durham and Orange Counties on one of two fully supported routes. Thanks to 2005 suggestions, the routes have changed. Check out the cue sheet, http://www.durhamhabitat.org/files/2006_Route.pdf. Is a relaxed ride [...]
Beautiful bike-protest politics. See more pics at Martino’s Bike Lane Diary, and if you read French you can read more about it at www.die-in-mtl.org.