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Jim Melcher and America’s Perestroika

Jim Melcher was one of my professors at MIT. He was also was a year-round bicycle commuter and in 1977, one of the first 25 members of the Boston Area Bicycle Coalition, In the 1980s, his activism expanded into issues … Continue reading

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Lyon study — cyclists ride faster in rush hour?

A blog posting published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology describes a study of cycling in Lyon, France. News accounts of the report are making some rather strange assertions, such as that cyclists ride faster during rush hour than in … Continue reading

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