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Books I’m reading

By Steve | Published: January 28, 2010
A book I recently finished was Green Metropolis.  It had some really good perceptions of town planning and how towns mess things up while trying to improve things for pedestrians and bicyclists.  Here’s the NY Times book review. Tom Branigan  loaned me David Byrne’s book, Bicycle Diaries.  I ended up buying a copy anyway.  Byrne is [...]
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Map section of the Free Library

By Steve | Published: January 27, 2010
I have always enjoyed browsing old maps at the Main Branch of the Free Library in Philadelphia.  And, when I first came to visit, Richard Boardman had the 1974 version of the Bicycle Commuters Map posted. In grad school, I’d find old maps showing the city before the Parkway was built or maps of Fairmount [...]
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Jenkintown to Milk Boy Coffeehouse

By Steve | Published: January 27, 2010
Driving from Jenkintown to Milkboy Coffeehouse in Ardmore takes about 40-45 minutes. So, I was curious to see what the difference was on a bike.  Bicycling there took  1hr 10 min, and bicycling home took 1 hr, 5 min.  There was a bit of a breeze. On the route there, I biked on Washington Lane, [...]
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Philadelphia Bike Map in Apple OSX Video

By Steve | Published: January 23, 2010
This is an image from Apple’s 2007 video for OSX.  We have always designed our maps on Macintosh Computers (since 1990).  In 2007, When Apple came out with the Leopard operating system, I was glad to see that they included the Philadelphia Bike Map in the promotional  video. If you want to get copies of [...]
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