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Our Honeymoon Without a Car
My wife, Zippi, and I just got back from our cross-country honeymoon and we had quite the adventure along the way. We decided to ditch the car at the Atlanta airport for the week and take Amtrak’s California Zephyr from Chicago to San Francisco. The views from Lake-Michigan-to-shining-sea were spectacular. After bidding adieu to our…
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Which Houston County Schools are most walkable and bikeable?
Houston County School’s Community Relations department was prompt and professional when I reached out for data regarding student transportation modes. Surprisingly, they do not know the percentage of students that walk, bike, or car ride to school. They did supply this link which shows information regarding transportation by bus. They also stated for the 23-24…
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Road Diet?
It was interesting to see this recent story from Dublin, GA: Dublin tries a new way to reduce speeds: a ‘road diet.’ Here’s what that is While it doesn’t fully capture the neighborhood greenways concept Ride Robins is advocating, it’s much closer than anything under discussion in Houston County. The model of residents engaging to…
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Ride Robins Routes
Ride Robins’ goal is to establish safe for all ages and abilities active transportation routes to meaningful locations throughout the Robins Region. At the outset, these will be informal routes built on folk knowledge and crowdsourcing. Over time, with support from local governments, these routes can be formalized. In a separate article we will explore…
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What a Ride!
Twenty bicyclists came out to our Ride Into Summer group bicycle ride and I couldn’t be happier! It was a nice slow roll from Fountain Park to Perkins Field and the weather was beautiful. Thanks so much to everyone that came out! We’re going to keep it up and have group rides every first and…
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