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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008My blog post on the Delaware DOT speeding campaign was satire. The Delaware press release is intended to let drivers know the potentially dangerous consequences of speeding. However, the message was muddled by the poorly designed ad.
In addition to the comments on the post, I received many e-mails. One e-mail summed up the problem with the […]
How To Kill A Bicyclist
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008There have been an alarming number of driver vs. bicyclist incidents in the past few months. The trend has been reported in many newspapers including the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Violence occurred at two recent critical mass rallies; one in Seattle and one in New York where a policeman intentionally pushed a cyclist off his […]
An Ugly Bike - NBC Picks Up The Story
Saturday, August 16th, 2008After I posted on Thursday about the Ugly Bike that was seized at Union Station, I received a comment from Tom Sherwood of NBC 4 news, the local NBC affiliate. I responded via e-mail with some more information. News 4 posted a story entitled “Commuter’s Bike Considered Too ‘Ugly’ At Union Station” on their website on Friday […]
An Ugly Bicycle
Thursday, August 14th, 2008In today’s Washington Post, there was a letter to the editor describing a bicycle related incident at Washington Union Station. A bicycle commuter had left a bicycle locked up outside Union Station and discovered the bicycle was missing at the end of the day when she returned. When she went inside to report it stolen, […]
Obama Campaign Strategy and Bicycle Racing
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Barack Obama appears to be a casual bicyclist as can be seen in the picture below. While he is not on a racing bike nor is he outfitted as a professional bicyclist, his campaign strategy has borrowed a proven approach from professional cycling races like the Tour De France. In a multi-day stage race such […]
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