Richard W’s new stickers and buttons for Bike Friendly Richardson. It sure is nice to have an artist in the group. Richard does great posters and flyers for the events.
The Cost of Highways
February 24, 2010Saw these two stories today in the Fort Worth Star Telegram. Highways are really, really expensive. I hear people complain sometimes that not everyone on the DART train buys a ticket — that there are cheaters. Compare that relatively small loss to the massive investment in freeways…it just doesn’t compare.
The money involved in just these two projects totals to over three billion dollars. That would finance a lot of light rail and bike lanes and street cars. I’m glad my friends who have to drive in these parts are perhaps looking at less misery, but there’s got to be a better way of doing things….
http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/02/23/1992005/stretch-of-ne-loop-820-has-dallas.html
http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/02/23/1990762/work-begins-on-dfw-connector.html
Visiting farms around the world by bike.
February 23, 2010My wife heard about this guy and his dream on the radio today. It is way cool. Check it out. He is planning to ride around the country, and world, by bike, visiting farms.
http://organicfarmingtech.com/
Biking for Groceries
February 7, 2010I rode the Electra Townie up to Sprouts grocery store today. We are lucky enough to have a Sprouts, Natural Grocers, Whole Foods, and HEB Central Market nearby, was well as some more traditional grocery stores. Sprouts is the groovy store that is closest to us – an easy 1.75 mile ride through the neighborhood.
My mission tonight was simply to buy stuff to eat for lunch next week, plus a few other items. Stuff to make smoothies, etc. Sprouts has fairly good prices. The one thing about these stores that still kind of bothers me is that they still sell products that are way over-packaged. Like a small package of baby spinach — it was in a clear plastic container that was just too much for the product. So much waste. No – I didn’t buy that stuff. I’d just like to see retailers insist on packaging that provides less crap to potentially go to the landfill.
It is also very hard for me to buy lettuce and spinach now. Last year we had so much from our square foot gardens — it was great. This year, due to my dad’s illness in 2009, we didn’t have any time to do the gardens. So I’m used to getting really good leafy greens for nearly free. Hard to pay grocery store prices.
Anyway, even though it was a bit cold it was nice to ride the bike to the store. It has been too long.
