I’m going to keep this short, but I want to let people know that the Montco PA Bike Plan is now online. It’s significant for a few reasons. The Level of Traffic Stress Analysis is valuable. It creates a model for individual municipalities to follow for doing their own plans. It’s got broad support and […]
A 2009 article from Bicycle Quarterly reviewed the Breezer Finesse, a high performance commuter bike. When JT Burke worked as the brand manager for Breezer back in 2010, he loaned me a Finesse to try out. I don’t buy bikes all that often, but I liked the Finesse so much that I bought the one […]
Paul Bunting came over to my house the other day to talk about history and to look at maps from philageohistory.org. Paul’s interest in history that has broadened my perspectives. Paul finds something of interest, such as a patent document or book. Then he asks questions that help him understand the context of that document. As a […]
At Be Well Cafe this morning, Sean asked, “Are you going to get out on your bike today?” I replied that I have too much work. I’m designing maps of Chapel Hill and the D&H Trail. But actually, I did bike to the grocery store this morning at 7 am. The morning sun felt pleasant […]
Bike plans make a difference I teach cartography at Temple University. Students bike several miles to get to class and I see professors riding electric bikes. There are ample bike racks outside Gladfelter Hall filled with lots of bikes. When I was in grad school in the early 1990’s, we had two tiny bike racks, […]