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When it comes to bicycling, short trips, close to home, are the lowest-hanging fruit. A quarter of all our daily travel is done within a mile of our homes. We do most of these short hops by car; less car-centric standards for neighborhood roads could easily make bicycling or walking a more attractive option. This need becomes especially clear when you know that these short local trips result in 60% of the pollution caused by our cars.
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― Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy
― Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy
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That which caused the many failures I had in learning the bicycle had caused me failures in life; namely, a certain fearful looking for of judgment; a too vivid realization of the uncertainty of everything about me; an underlying doubt--at once, however (and this is all that saved me), matched and overcome by the determination not to give in to it.
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― How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle: Reflections of an Influential 19th Century Woman
― How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle: Reflections of an Influential 19th Century Woman
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