Cartoon Tuesday: Bike to Work Day
Bike to Work Day is Friday, May 16. Check Transportation Alternatives’ Bike Month site for events.
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Cartoon Tuesday Double Feature: Bike Tolls and Bridge Trolls
By Ian Lockwood |
Editor’s note: With bike tolls being a hot topic recently, Streetsblog cartoonist, transportation engineer, and Loeb Fellow Ian Lockwood was inspired to submit two items for this installment of Cartoon Tuesday. Ian writes of the second toon: I kept thinking about the bike toll issue and came up with this cartoon. It’s strange how motorists […]
Cartoon Tuesday: Triple Parking
By Ben Fried |
Head over to Toronto bike advocacy blog Take the Tooker for the denouement to this transportation fable. Hat tip: Greater Greater Washington.
Cartoon Tuesday: No Rebate Required
By Jason Varone |
While car makers resort to their own gas gimmicks to move outdated and inefficient stock, more and more bikes are rolling out of cycle shops from Bismarck to the Bay Area. Even those in the auto business are making the switch: Mark Krenz, 48, is giving it a try. The Bismarck auto-parts store manager recently […]
Cartoon Tuesday: Mode Switch
By Ben Fried |
This number from cartoonist Bob Lafay makes a good companion to last week’s news that some bike models are in short supply throughout New York City, perhaps reflecting the effect of gas prices on manufacturers’ inventories. The panic subsides once you start pedaling.
Cartoon Tuesday: Cycling = Healthy, Pt. 2
By Brad Aaron |
Here’s another installment in the "cycling is good for you" series, this time from New York insurer Emblem Health. In this animated ad, a Brooklyn bike commuter pedals across a bridge toward Manhattan, explaining that cycling affords him the same freedom he enjoys from his health care coverage. And to further identify with the target […]
Cartoon Tuesday: Park-N-Abandon
By Brad Aaron |
Today’s toon combo comes to us via the Times’ By Design blog, where Allison Arieff has posted a paean to Steven M. Johnson, an inventor, author, cartoonist and former urban planner described by Arieff as "a sort of R. Crumb meets R. Buckminster Fuller." Many of Johnson’s "whimsical musings" are transportation related, and at least […]