Bicycle Activists Take to the Freeways in L.A. : NPR

Citation added: June 18th, 2008, 9:28 am
"looking for cyclists willing to pedal up an on ramp during a Friday afternoon rush hour and just keep going. On April 18, a dozen bikers joined them in a park by the freeway. After a few nervous moments, they set off. "We didn't know what was going to ha
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Toronto's Love/Hate Relationship with Bikes (TreeHugger)

Citation added: April 14th, 2007, 1:33 pm
"1) People who get it are getting elected. City Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker lives in the outer reaches of the city but bicycles 42 km (26 miles) each way to work at Toronto City Hall, all year round, from a part of town where there are no bike lanes.
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The New Yorker: PRINTABLES Holy Rollers by Ben McGrath - The city’s bicycle zealots.

Citation added: November 7th, 2006, 7:50 am
"the hundred and twenty thousand New Yorkers who ride bicycles every day, comprises three distinct types—commuters (book editors, say, wearing cargo pants), exercisers (lawyers in spandex), and messengers (streetwise minorities without health care)—wh
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