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Washcycle, the region's superb bicycling blog, reports that while I mentioned there will be bicycles for conventioneers to use at the Democratic National Convention this summer in Denver, there will also be bicycles for conventioneers at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis. See "GOP convention gets a new spin: Free bikes," from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. It's being sponsored by Humana, and the intent is that some of the bicycles will remain, to serve as the start of a bicycle sharing program in the Minneapolis region.

And speaking about bicycling as a marker for urbanity, urban design and placemaking and a progressive urban policy agenda, WNYC radio in NYC did a story on the urban policies of the Clinton and Obama campaigns a couple weeks ago. I'm not sure it's worth 6 minutes of your time, but I got a good line of inquiry out of it...