It is National Bike to Work Week, and I've been hard at work co-creating a website full of bike commuter lore (bicyclingforlouisville.org/commuting). Check it out!, it's got safety videos, an online poll, a gas savings calculator, and a mailing list about bicycle commuting in Louisville.

Click here to scroll & zoom the map in a new window.

source: Cranked Magazine

This must-read piece details the travails of Missouri's Complete Streets bill. It will be eerily familiar to veteran's of Kentucky's process this year. Here in Kentucky statewide Complete Streets is a smoking crater, as far as I know. Meanwhile, Missouri's advocates have rolled with the punches better, and have landed on their feet. The piece reads like a how-to guide for Kentucky.

mobikefed.org: MoDOT halts Complete Streets bill; promises to implement it via internal policy

 
 

Bicycling for Louisville will offer Confident Cycling classes for adults on Wednesday evenings beginning April 16th. Their certified cycling instructors will teach the League of American Bicyclists' famous Road I curriculum.

Learn more and enroll today: http://bicyclingforlouisville.org/classes

League of American Bicyclists press release:

Washington, D.C.—March 25, 2008—Florida cyclists are cheering the news today that the State Department of Transportation is, according to a ruling of the First District Court of Appeals, unambiguously obligated "to establish bicycle and pedestrian ways in conjunction with the construction, reconstruction, or other change of any state transportation facilities." The ruling goes on to say that bicycle and pedestrian ways shall be established "unless the Department exercises its discretion not to establish [them]" according to one of three conditions described in the statutes, and that the "Department's discretion is limited."

I admit it. I'm spoiled. I'm a middle-aged American, and therefore I should be among the most mobile people on the planet. But it's just not true. None of us are. Even with our cars and 5 expressway spurs leading into Louisville, we're less mobile than people in other countries. This has huge consequences for our economy.

All of CART's Car Free Guides to Louisville Neighborhoods are now online!  Many are still in print in dead-tree edition - check with your local neighborhood group.

• Car Free Guide to Deer Park (2003) web
• Car Free Guide to St Matthews (2005) pdf
• Car Free Guide to Clifton (2007) pdf
• Car Free Guide to the Highlands (coming 2008!)

"Another Dam" Issue

• Mayor Jerry needs to hear you value Public Transportation
• Green Energy Roadshow tours Kentucky
• Mother Anne Lee Dam Online
• Complete Streets bills in Kentucky & Illinois
• TransMilenio Bus Rapid Transit in Bogotá, Colombia
• Wall Street Journal: Oil Officials See Limit Looming on Production
• Bicycle Helmets Stigmatize & Kill?
• Sweden uses Subway Body Heat to Heat Offices

Why Be Car-Free?

A car-free life can be a carefree life. Life without searching for parking spots, pumping the gas, waiting in traffic, getting speeding/parking tickets, and avoiding car repair/breakdowns can be less stressful and healthier. You don't have to be totally car-free to enjoy the benefits either. Being car-free for just one day can still make a difference. Imagine if everyone was car-free for just one day each week. That would be a 14% reduction in the pollution we create.