Bicycling is but one segment of mobility and mobility is more than making the car supreme

Bicycles, Avenue A, Lower East Side, Manhattan.

Streets are for mobility, not just for cars.

1. There is a new yahoogroup on bicycling, worldcitybike@yahoogroups.com, sponsored by the Paris-based New Mobility project.

2. The Boston Globe had an article, "Pedaling through winter on a bicycle built for one," and a letter in response, "Footloose and fancy freeze," on biking in the winter. I ride during the winter, except when it is very wet, like Thursday January 17th, or icy.

3. There has been an exchange of letters to the editor in the Washington Post about bicycling. The first letter, "Don't Honk If You Hate Bicyclists," makes the logical point that if you startle bicyclists by honking and screaming at them that accidents can happen. The second, "The Point of Bike Paths ," argued that roads are for cars and bike paths are for bikes. David Cranor, the blogmaster of the region's superb Washcycle bicycling blog, responded, in "Why We Ride in the Road." Today has another response, "Why Can't We All Just Share the Road?."

Again, roads were created long before cars. And mobility is more than just about cars, or even about transit. (See my previous writings on the mobilityshed.)

4. In an unexpected development, I might help implement a free bicycle sharing system in a smaller town. One of the the things that I think we need to address is helmets and locks. I was thinking of a returnable vending system, or something like lockers. Although that would mean that the lock and helmet would have to be returned to the original renting station.

On the other hand, there is opposition to helmets out there, such as on the website, Cycle Helmets.