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University City Transit Riders: Trailnet Needs Your Input
Trailnet and University City are in the early stages of developing a plan to improve conditions for walking and bicycling and they need your help! They’re looking for University City residents that regularly use Metro to join them in early … Continue reading
Posted in Transit in the Community
Tagged bikes, Customer Feedback, Focus Groups, Pedestrian, Trailnet, University City
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Bikes + MetroLink in Illinois: Trail System
Metro and our partners at the St. Clair County Transit District are working to extend the bike trail network serving St. Clair County, Illinois, providing additional multi-modal options. Thanks to funding from St. Clair County Transit District and federal funds, … Continue reading
Win St. Louis Alternative Transportation Gear for National Dump the Pump Day June 17
OK, it’s summer 2010. Oil continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico, and we still spend billions of dollars to feed our ever-increasing appetite for petroleum, all while pumping millions of pounds of carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Isn’t … Continue reading
St. Louis Open Streets, Tour de Grove, and CWE Taste and Art Fair events this weekend
St. Louis will be all about bikes this weekend with the return of St. Louis City Open Streets, the Tour de Grove cycling and neighborhood events, and ARTCRANK, a show featuring bike-inspired posters by local artists. Throw in the Central … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Transportation, Explore St. Louis
Tagged bikes, Central West End, Open Streets, Tour de Grove
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Bikes In Transit (Part One In a Series): Getting Ready to Bike
This is the first of a series of posts on bikes and transit. Biking is an important mode of transportation for millions of Americans, whether it is for health, transportation, leisure or sport. Using bicycles with transit can help increase … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Transportation, Transit Lifestyle
Tagged bikes, Bikes in Transit, safety
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Why Not Bike Lockers? (Updated)
In response to a MetroLinks post last week regarding bike vending machines, commenter JimmyZ asked: Instead of “Bike-share Vending Machines”, how ’bout just some simple bike lockers at suburban metrolink stations, available for daily or monthly rentals? I thought that … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Transportation, Design, Making Transit Easy
Tagged bike lockers, bike racks, bike share, bikes, Getting Around, metrobus, MetroLink, Portland
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Get Outside: Park Palooza is this weekend!
I think sometimes we forget that the Arch isn’t just a great big tall monument/building, but is actually a national park. This weekend is a great time to experience the “park” part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial with two … Continue reading
Transit Elsewhere
I’ve just returned* from a trip to Europe to visit my dad and one of the things I enjoyed the most was how easy it was to get around the cities I was visiting without having a car at my … Continue reading
Green Tech Roundup
Every now and then, I see articles of interest to our readers but to which I have little or nothing to add. I will, from time to time, post such links in a roundup post so you don’t miss them. … Continue reading
Yikes! Bikes!
There’s bike-friendly, and then there’s bike-lovin.’ Copenhagen falls into the “lovin’” category. Digital bike-counter display? Totally. Doubles as air pump? Awesome. But check this out: The city will give a Biomega bike to cyclist number 500,000, and since there are … Continue reading