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		<title>&#8216;The worst piece of transportation legislation I&#8217;ve seen&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.commutebybike.com/2012/02/04/the-worst-piece-of-transportation-legislation-ive-seen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week was not a great week for bike advocacy here in the United States. The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure released a bill that was far worse for biking and walking than anyone had expected. Representatives Petri (R-WI) and Johnson (R-IL) proposed an amendment that would have restored funding for biking and walking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crossing Guard Advocacy and The&#160;Joy&#160;of&#160;Cycling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carol Barker lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she enjoys bicycle commuting and joy riding year round. She is a tutor and school crossing guard who shares her bicycle love and general rebellion against the wife-and-mom-of-suburbia stereotype at her blog AbbyNormal. It was the first thing I saw and the only thing I remember from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Flirts with Idaho&#8230; Stops for Cyclists</title>
		<link>http://www.commutebybike.com/2012/02/01/arizona-contemplates-idaho-stops-for-cyclists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BluesCat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BluesCat is a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, who originally returned to bicycling in 2002 in order to help his son get the Boy Scout Cycling merit badge. His bikes sat idle until the summer of 2008 when gas prices spiked at over $4.00 per gallon. Since then, he has become active cycling, day-touring, commuting by [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Put Bike/Ped Projects Back into the Transportation Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.commutebybike.com/2012/01/31/put-bikeped-projects-back-into-the-transportation-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old Man Mica is hurling rocks. The Transportation Bill released by The House of Representatives indeed does cut out all funding for cycling projects. Per the League of American Bicyclists: Last week, we knew the bill would be bad news for biking and walking. But we didn’t think it would go so far as to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Old Man Warner, Cycling Opponent</title>
		<link>http://www.commutebybike.com/2012/01/30/old-man-warner-cycling-opponent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recognize this quote? &#8220;Pack of crazy fools,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Listening to the young folks, nothing&#8217;s good enough for them. Next thing you know, they&#8217;ll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work any more, live that way for a while.&#8221; If you graduated from high school, you were likely required at some [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bicycle and Pedestrian Funding (still) at Risk</title>
		<link>http://www.commutebybike.com/2012/01/26/bicycle-and-pedestrian-funding-still-at-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I looked at the homepage of this site and could hardly believe what I saw. The most recent stories, stacked three high, featured black and white photos of Hollywood entertainers. Well, the celebrity mongering is over. For now. Let us return now to the lofty topics for which this blog is known. No, not liquor [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>2012 Academy Award Nominees on Bikes</title>
		<link>http://www.commutebybike.com/2012/01/24/2012-academy-award-nominees-on-bikes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I&#8217;ve spent the last hour looking through this year&#8217;s Oscar Nominees in the acting and directing categories and doing Google Image searches to see who might be candidates for my effort to get someone to arrive to the event by bike. Yes, that means I just spent an hour, on the clock, looking at [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Countering Cuddly Car Characters: Bike&#160;Names</title>
		<link>http://www.commutebybike.com/2011/12/13/countering-cuddly-car-characters-bike-names/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn&#8217;t a big fan of the Pixar movie Cars. No, it wasn&#8217;t because the movie wasn&#8217;t about bikes. It was that the underlying message was this: There is no problem in the world so big that a celebrity can&#8217;t fix it. The big problem in the movie was that the town of Radiator Springs, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>In Tokyo a bicycle is faster than a car: Useless&#160;information or instructive&#160;tale?</title>
		<link>http://www.commutebybike.com/2011/12/09/in-tokyo-a-bicycle-is-faster-than-a-car-useless-information-or-cautionary-tale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.&#8221; Thus saith the Internet. Many of us who live or have lived in congested cities will find this easy to believe. This &#8220;fact&#8221; was brought to my attention by Ray, a reader of Commute by Bike, who found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>League Seeks Bicycle Friendly America Local Reviewers</title>
		<link>http://www.commutebybike.com/2011/12/06/league-seeks-bicycle-friendly-america-local-reviewers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey Moses</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To assist in its review of Bicycle Friendly Businesses, Bicycle Friendly Communities and Bicycle Friendly Universities, the League of American Bicyclists is seeking knowledgeable cyclists for its local reviewer database. The Bicycle Friendly America program, which includes categories ranging from small businesses to states and universities, recognizes the efforts of people and organizations dedicated to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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