Paging Kevin Roose! My Conversation with the Bing Chatbot Was Much Better than Yours!
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Here's a story about why we no longer fear artificial intelligence, and, indeed, hope it will someday be running the country.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Copenhagen
1,000! Clarence Eckerson’s Streetfilms Hits the Ultimate Milestone
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The 'Orson Welles of the Streets' looks back on the advent of his 1,000th installment.
Op-Ed: Copenhagen’s Lessons for the ‘Green Wave’
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As New York expands the bike network, it should protect lanes on both sides and employ people-powered data.
Touring Copenhagen’s Car-Free Bridges
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One of the things that makes Copenhagen great is the city is continually finding ways to make biking and walking better — like building car-free bridges. Bicycle Program Manager Marie Kastrup was very kind to take me on a tour of some of the bike and pedestrian bridges Copenhagen has constructed in the last decade. […]
Climate Idealism Can’t Hold a Candle to Collective Action
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Cross-posted from the Carbon Tax Center. Why do Copenhageners ride bicycles? The key reason, says Yale economist and bestselling author Robert J. Shiller, is that Danes are idealists who resolved, after the oil crisis of the 1970s, “to make a personal commitment to ride bicycles rather than drive, out of moral principle, even if that […]
Where Cyclists Have the Power to Ride Straight Past Turning Motorists
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Hey, so it turns out the all-powerful @BicycleLobby didn’t actually scale the Brooklyn Bridge and plant white American flags at the top. That was two all-powerful German artists. But courtesy of Clarence Eckerson Jr., here’s some footage of raw bicyclist power in Copenhagen, where turning drivers defer to people on bikes at intersections. I guess […]