Pittsburgh Walk & Bike

Streetfilms have some great videos of alternative transportation success stories with many films that involve biking and bike lanes. Here's one of the videos about a biking triumph in Pittsburgh.


Pittsburgh Walk & Bike from Streetfilms on Vimeo.


Now as most of you know, I prefer completely dedicated bike trails, but I also know that's not possible in a lot of places. So some of the bike lanes in the Streetfilm videos are the next best thing to separated bike paths.

Pittsburgh Walk & Bike

Bike Lane is a good website for bicycle tourists

New Mexico's Rail Runner Express
should be called the Trail Runner Express

I spend a lot of time bike touring. When I started, I had no clue what to take, how to get my bike there, where to rent, where to store my bike, and all those basic bicycle travel questions.

Recently, thanks to Stumble Upon, I found a website called Bike Lane. It is a wealth of information for bike travelers. It is an active travel website with information about airports, airlines, trains, bicycle containers, bike storage, bike rentals, and more.

Traveling to trails by train
is the way to go.

In addition to providing invaluable information for the bike traveler, bikelane also makes it easy to submit tips. I was happy to add a couple tips about traveling on a train for bike trips and bicycle shipping when on a bike tour.

If you have any plans to visit some of great bike trails in the United States or around the world, you owe it to yourself to visit Bike Lane for bike touring tips.

Bike Lane is a good website for bicycle tourists

London Bike Sharing

My favorite place is London, and my favorite activity is bike riding.

So imagine my pleasure to find an article about a new bike sharing program in London, England.

According to the article, the program will be bigger (at least more bikes) than the one in New York. That's saying a lot, because the New York bike sharing program is pretty humungous.

I am really glad to see cities jump on the bandwagon of supporting and promoting bicycling among residents and visitors. It is good for health, environment, economy, and well-being. Oh, did I forget to mention it's a lot of fun, too.

I have only one word of advice to all of these cities. Don't forget the bike paths. Having loaner bikes, bike lanes, and fancy pamphlets is a start, but bike trails are essential. Many of us are still uncomfortable biking on streets, no matter how many bike lanes you have. It only takes one careless driver or rider to cause and accident and very possibly a death. Raised bike lanes such as the ones they have in Scandinavia are better, but still not as good as pedestrian and bike paths.

London Bike Sharing