I am quite happy that Bike To Work Day is mentioned in the article. I can personally say that it has been great to have volunteered (with the SF Bike Coalition) on that day for a number of years and along, meet people that were moving beyond cars even before the gas prices were the hot topic. On that note, still makes me happy that people are finding various ways to move around.


‹click photo/title for full San Francisco Chronicle/sfgate.com link›
Bay Area commuters moving beyond cars
by Michael Cabanatuan (Photo by Paul Chinn)
“…In San Francisco, a traffic count by the Municipal Transportation Authority in July found that during a one-hour stretch of the morning commute, there were more bicycles than cars, taxis, buses and streetcars heading eastbound on Market Street. According to Judson True, an authority spokesman, 509 bike riders were tallied compared with 400 cars, 43 taxis and 30 transit vehicles. On Bike to Work Day in May, he said, officials counted twice as many bikes as motorized vehicles…”

‹Photo/Excerpt by San Francisco Chronicle/sfgate.com›

ON THE STREET with Bill Cunningham
How cute is Bill Cunningham, always right on top of things, fashion things anyways. Before the fab mr.Sartorialist, there was (and still is) Bill Cunningham—Photographer for the NY Times.

Super! and loads of brown-brown-brown
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Check this week’s NY Times
‹ON THE STREET Colors of the Changing season›
which I have included because Mr.Cunningham is
oh-so-super cute with that bicycle. And it isn’t the first
time he has a bicycle thing going on…

…Previously this year (January 18th) he had a sweet set
‹ON THE STREET On a Roll› which includes bikes
and fashion in that New York winter weather.
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Further ‹short article› about Bill Cunningham’s influence on street-fashion
and photography: ‹The Heir to Bill Cinningham?
By Nicholas Boston/NY Observer›