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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
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, Boston, cancer, Course 6, E.E., EE, electrical engineering, Electromagnetic field theory, Electromagnetism, energy policy, engineering, Iraq War, James Melcher, Jim Melcher, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, Middle East, Military policy, MIT, oil, Politics
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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
Posted in Bicycle facilities, Bicycling, Laws
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, Bike share, France, law, Lyon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, research, safety, traffic, traffic signal
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