Car Less Brit

back to the streets

as bike culture continues to expand within Roanoke city limits I am pleased to be refocusing on promoting, demonstrating and highlighting biking as a viable means of primary transport within this fine city

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terrific Bikes at Work photo collection from streetsblog

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photo by John Hamill at start of Starbomb bike ride down Mill Mountain, Roanoke, VA

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folks from duck duck collective shooting Levi’s commercial featuring Ron, from sharebike, Car Less Brit, Car Less Brit Museum and John Johnson of Bad Eye Deer Bicycles. Roanoke, VA.

Commercial released Dec 09

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A Porsche can be better for the environment than a Prius

a great solution for bikers who also want to be drivers

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Another USA Today article leaving a negative impression of bikers

Is the USA Today on a negative PR campaign against biking?

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a still from the upcoming Car Less Brit video: “Packing Heat; a short survival guide for the bike commuter.”

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Packing Heat

hoping to soon find time to edit the new Car Less Brit video: “Packing Heat; a short survival guide for the bike commuter.” Even Ride Solutions, who I thought was my eternal sponsor and $ provider, won’t get near this one.

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Finesse

it surely takes more skill, finesse, aplomb and savoir faire to bike through red lights than to stop at them

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One of my great interests is time reallocation in an urban system. All I mean by this is that when I walk across parts of London which I do most weeks it is quite clear that the amount of time I stand still and do not move as traffic hurtles past is very large. I estimate it is about 50% of my journey time. That means that even in a congestion charge best practice world my time is being stolen to reward drivers with time savings. I want the theft halted and the system re-prioritised to reward pedestrians and cyclists.

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John Whitelegg, Editor, World Transport Policy and Practice

John Whitelegg is visiting Professor of Sustainable Transport at Liverpool John Moores University and Professor of Sustainable Development at University of York’s Stockholm Environment Institute, and is founder and editor of the Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice. John is a local councillor in Lancaster, and Leader of the North West (of England) Green Party. He can be contacted via j.whitelegg@btinternet.com

originally posted at World Streets

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Margaret and Emily in Car Less Brit Museum, with an essential tool for road biking above them (artist, Joe Kelley); Margaret riding the bike lane in the museum; and the iron-on patch leaving gift they gave me.

They were guests of mine for a couple of days, leaving today, stopping in Roanoke during a 3 month bike trek from Vermont to New Orleans. They found me through http://warmshowers.org

em and marg were a delight to host

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‘exciting! Blue Ridge Parkway tour bikers are staying at my place weds. ‘contacted me thru http://warmshowers.org but I hope they aren’t slow-torture killers

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