"In a a properly designed Traditional City, most people don’t need bicycles." --Energy Bulletin
You know it's been a while between posts when your own mother starts chipping you about not updating your blog...
"There is a deeply pleasing randomness about the campus cyclists, as though one morning university officials had assigned a bicycle to every member of the Stanford community, come as you are, without considering for a moment matters of fit - or fitness." --Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times
"Cycling which was yesterday the fad of the few is to-day the pastime of the many; it has brought wealth to the wayside town and village, has given a new industry to the country, and by taking the place of more expensive forms of locomotion has facilitated in various ways the carrying on of trade." --The Lancet, July 11, 1896.
"You learned a long time ago that it doesn't matter how light or fast, just get on that bike." --ORbike
"We take for granted the dominance of the car in our transport system but the might-is-right attitude is downright undemocratic, and proclaims that as a society we believe someone in a $40,000 car is more important than a person on a $200 bike." --Debra Mayrhofer, New Matilda
If you wrap your kids in cotton wool, you aren't really doing them any favours...
"But here's the big secret: bike commuting is no sacrifice at all. As a matter of fact, I often feel a pang of guilt for doing it. It's so much fun, and I derive so many benefits from it..." --Alan, www.ecovelo.info
Elizabeth Street in Melbourne has dangerous bike lanes.