Happy Earth Day!

[MALcontent]

It's a day to celebrate our environmental superiority as cyclists! I haven't been acting so superior in my commuting habits , so I committed to riding my bicycle to the train today. What a lovely experience! I pledge to do it more often! Any other Earth Day stories out there?

[Pax]

I bought a scooter over the weekend, now my 16mpg SUV will stay parked and I'll scoot along at 90mpg...on the days when my old injuries permit I'll pedal along at 0mpg!

[jesvetmed]

I have an appointment about 10 miles away... will ride there today, as the hail and sleet have FINALLY stopped (I hope!). Supposed to do "lactate intervals" for my workout, which I will save for my trip home.

Might also go buy some plants and start the gardening tomorrow -- almost for earth day!

HAPPY EARTH DAY!

[Running Mommy]

Saturday they had an earth day event here in our community. They allowed people to PARK IN THE BIKE LANES!!!!
Of course there are dirt overflow lots they COULD have parked in, but that would have made them walk a bit... Ohh the HORROR!!!

And yes, I did contact our community office about it as well as post something on the online board.

The real sad thing is most people in the community are within walking distance of the lakes, but they choose to pull out the suv's and drive that .75 mile....

[rij73]

Saturday they had an earth day event here in our community. They allowed people to PARK IN THE BIKE LANES!!!!
Of course there are dirt overflow lots they COULD have parked in, but that would have made them walk a bit... Ohh the HORROR!!!

Wow... that's just wrong.

[Jolt]

Wow... that's just wrong.

It is just ridiculous--at any time, but even more so for an Earth Day festival!

[Jolt]

It's a day to celebrate our environmental superiority as cyclists! I haven't been acting so superior in my commuting habits , so I committed to riding my bicycle to the train today. What a lovely experience! I pledge to do it more often! Any other Earth Day stories out there?

Slightly off topic, but I noticed you're in MA as well and ride the train. Depending on my class/clinical schedule and the weather on any given day, I've sometimes found myself wishing I could bring my bike on the train to ride from, for example, the station to my clinical site to avoid all the waiting around for the T or the bus. However, that isn't possible because bikes aren't allowed on peak-hour trains (and as things currently stand, that is a reasonable rule because there'd be no room) which is irritating. If the MBTA were to put a "bike car" on each peak train (maybe with the seats taken off one side and places to put bikes there instead, and then leave the seats on the other side for the people to sit) do you think enough people would use it for that to be worthwhile? Maybe that could be something to suggest, what do you think?

[Bad JuJu]

Apropos of Earth Day, here's a thought-provoking little video that one of my students turned me on to:
The Story of Stuff

[mimitabby]

for earth day; I rode my bike to work even though it was below 40 degrees and it's supposed to rain!

[MALcontent]

Slightly off topic, but I noticed you're in MA as well and ride the train. Depending on my class/clinical schedule and the weather on any given day, I've sometimes found myself wishing I could bring my bike on the train to ride from, for example, the station to my clinical site to avoid all the waiting around for the T or the bus. However, that isn't possible because bikes aren't allowed on peak-hour trains (and as things currently stand, that is a reasonable rule because there'd be no room) which is irritating. If the MBTA were to put a "bike car" on each peak train (maybe with the seats taken off one side and places to put bikes there instead, and then leave the seats on the other side for the people to sit) do you think enough people would use it for that to be worthwhile? Maybe that could be something to suggest, what do you think?

I believe people regularly press the MBTA on this and you should certainly contact them to add your voice. I believe Mass Bike is the main advocate on this and possibly MASSPIRG as well. You might contact them as well. I seem to recall the head of the MBTA responding with something like "Yeah, that's a great idea, but we just don't have the money to add cars like that. We're broke."

[Jolt]

I seem to recall the head of the MBTA responding with something like "Yeah, that's a great idea, but we just don't have the money to add cars like that. We're broke."

Somehow that doesn't surprise me.