BBL Version 2.0 – Flooding and keeping the spirit alive!
The 2o11 BBL leaves the Bancroft Street Market at 9:00 am, every Saturday until November 5th, 2011. During the 2011 season the BBL has been modified due to flooding on the Missouri River. The route will tour the Historic Vinton District, 16th and Vinton, 16th Street Mall, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Kaneko, Old Market, … Read more
Omaha Bike completed!
Check out the OWH article announcing bike route completion! http://www.omaha.com/article/20100805/NEWS01/708059858
League of American Bicyclists Traffic 101 Course!
Bancroft Street Market and the Bancroft Bayliss Loop are happy to announce we are hosting a League of American Bicyclists Traffic 101 course. For anyone riding for recreation or transportation, this is a great way to gain the skills to stay safe, be responsible and tackle those tough situations of a flat tire! The cost … Read more
London’s Blue Bicycle Highways + Painting the Streets as Public Art?
London’s bicycle highway system opened today. Portland has neato public art bike racks. Cities are beautifying their landscapes and supporting the option to ride for transportation. We have a great deal of interest in public art around these parts lately. Both Omaha and Council Bluffs are plopping monolithic sculptures around our towns. I am sure they … Read more
Art of Politics and the Politics of Art
Mike Krainak did a great review of Hopey Changey Things a few weeks back. I am proud to say that I think some of the most critical comments I have seen Krainak write in recent times are about the Bancroft Bayliss Loop. Having your work described as “not art” is every intermedia artist’s dream. Take a moment … Read more
Making Progess on the Streets!
Today I saw a pile of bikes outside Ellie’s Deli, filling the sidewalk of downtown Council Bluffs Iowa and filling my heart with joy (really!). The BBL is growing every Saturday like a seedling getting its first set of true leaves. New riders and returning riders are coming along for the experience, and everyone is getting to know … Read more
Bendy Theft Prevention = Great Design
A few weeks ago the World Herald ran a small article highlighting the increase in bike thefts. Theft is a nasty. At 11 someone broke into our tiny rental house and stole literally everything except my underwear and a tie dye shirt my father had given me. Combine that with 3 bikes stolen in my adulthood thus … Read more
Bicycle highways: What comes first the chicken or the egg?
John Eaverett, one of the new riders this summer sent me this article. I have been thinking a lot about the last paragraph: www.slate.com/id/2258675/ One sometimes hears, in critiques of bringing bicycling in a bigger way to American cities, something along the lines of “that might work in Europe, but it will never work here.” But … Read more
Celebrating Independence: The National Debate about Bicycles
One City recently held a bike only Sunday, another is banning bicycles altogether. It is the great American experience. My grandfather from eons ago, Josiah Bartlett, was a founding father and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Two years ago I went to Philadelphia for the first time. As I was walking down the sidewalk ogling the architecture, I stopped and … Read more
How about a Midwest Pedapalooza at both sides of Ped Bridge?
http://www.shift2bikes.org/cal/viewpp2010.php
