How can you tell if a business appreciates customers who arrive by bike? The presence of a bike rack is a good sign. The location of the bike rack is […]

Ask people to describe their childhood experiences with bicycles and they’ll almost always use the word, “fun.” Indeed my first bicycle was foremost a device for having fun, for racing […]

The annual Dump the Pump commuting challenge is designed to demonstrate that riding a bicycle or taking the bus can often be just as fast as driving. And in the […]

AS HE CONTINUED complaining, all I could think was this: “Wow. He has no idea I’m one of the people he’s talking about.” The subject, of course, was bicyclists and […]

IN JULY 2005 I began to comprehend how many kinds of car trips I could replace with bike rides. Back then I don’t think I realized that May is National […]

Immediately following the redesign of Price Street to include a bike lane and on–street parking, some folks offered grim forecasts. Automobile traffic would snarl, they predicted. Bicyclists would be hurt […]

The rising price of gasoline is uniting Americans in collective dread. If we think prices are high now, we are warned, wait until summertime. While we have no idea why […]

“They symbolize America’s independent spirit. They deserve our respect,” Leonard said. Chuck agreed. “If populations are threatened, bad news for us all.” Amanda said, “I get frustrated because they move […]

LAST WEEK in this paper, Jessica Leigh Lebos’ excellent story “Return to the Food Desert?” examined the fallout from the closing of the Food Lion on MLK Jr. Boulevard. She […]

What if it were an accepted fact of life that if you owned a car in Savannah it would be stolen at least once? Or that some folks might be […]

WHICH CITY OFFICIAL has done the most to make Savannah safer and more accommodating to bicyclists? I used to joke that Gen. James Oglethorpe deserved this distinction, despite the fact […]

SAVANNAH EXPERIENCED really chilly temperatures recently and that, for many, was a barrier to bicycling in our city. Yet, as year–round cyclists know, once you get rolling, you can warm […]