{"id":2947,"date":"2009-09-14T23:42:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T04:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2009-09-14T23:42:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T04:42:53","slug":"whats-turning-the-spokes-on-the-net-september-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/14\/whats-turning-the-spokes-on-the-net-september-14th\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Turning the Spokes on the Net September 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading Fast Company Magazine and spotted these two articles related to bicycling. Sometimes I have wanted a true full service bikestation.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

How Cycling Centers Could Help Smooth Commuter Transitions<\/strong><\/a>
\nBy: Kate Rockwood
\nAndr\u00c3\u00a9a White-Kjoss
\nCEO
\nMobis Transportation\/Bikestation<\/p>\n

Andr\u00c3\u00a9a White-Kjoss, 35, modeled her full-service cycling centers on a similar idea already popular in Japan and Europe. More than a dozen bike stations have opened in such places as Palo Alto and Berkeley, California; Seattle; and, most recently, Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

“Our existing transportation system has been built around the automobile — parking, service, fuel — and we need the same sort of system around other forms of transportation.<\/p>\n

Have you ever heard of B-cycle? Me neither. This is an automated kiosk to rent bikes. More from Fast Company Magazine. With the current debate on health care this might be interesting.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Humana Takes Health to the Streets With B-cycle Bike Sharing<\/strong><\/a>
\nBy: Kate Rockwood
\nGrant Harrison
\nVice President of the Innovation Center
\nHumana
\nLouisville, Kentucky<\/p>\n

Grant Harrison, 45, created B-cycle — automated kiosks that let riders rent bikes at prices akin to mass transit — at Humana, in partnership with Crispin Porter + Bogusky and Trek. The national rollout will bring 50,000 bikes to a dozen U.S. cities in the next three years.<\/p>\n

“Health-insurance companies have to change. We can’t focus solely on policy reform; we’re hoping to become a health-creation company. The focus for us is to make fun things healthy.<\/p>\n

Planners see dip in money for new roads<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Austin American-Statesman
\n… or expand transit or bicycle and pedestrian facilities. Daugherty said the inability to find money for road projects \u00e2\u20ac\u201d such as the $89 million Texas 45 …<\/p>\n

Riding in the rain \u00c2\u00ab Bike Noob<\/strong><\/a>
\nby rainycamp
\nNow that we’re coming into what passes for fall in Texas, there will be more rain to contend with. I don’t like riding in the rain. If it’s raining before I start my ride, I’ll scratch my ride plans and find something else to do. …<\/p>\n

Lengthy bike ride pays off in the end<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Chicago Daily Herald
\nStarting in Austin, Texas, Broeder peddled west to California, north to Washington, east to the New England states, south to Florida and back west to Texas. …<\/p>\n

Bike MS participant has the disease and wants to raise awareness<\/strong><\/a>
\nby San Antonio Express
\nAn estimated 20000 Texas have been diagnosed with MS, and about 2.5 million people worldwide. Minerd has relapsing-remitting MS, the most common form, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading Fast Company Magazine and spotted these two articles related to bicycling. Sometimes I have wanted a true full service bikestation. How Cycling Centers Could Help Smooth Commuter Transitions By: Kate Rockwood Andr\u00c3\u00a9a White-Kjoss CEO Mobis Transportation\/Bikestation Andr\u00c3\u00a9a …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[952,954,951,910,78,953],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-b-cycle","tag-bike-noob","tag-bikestation","tag-cross-country","tag-ms150","tag-road-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-Lx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}