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The Initiative for Healthy Infrastructure at the University of Albany has completed its feasibility study on the Central Avenue Bikeway. You can download a PDF of the study at the IHI site.

Pretty cool. Check it out. Via Cyclelicious.

The League of American Bicyclists released it’s list of Bike Friendly States. New York is #34.

Those crafty kids in Oregon slipped the Bicycle Commuter Benefits Act into Bush’s awful awful $700 billion bad debt buy out. In short, your employer can give you $20/month, tax free, for biking to work. More from Commute By Bike, among others.

The official Long Bike Back Blog was updated this morning. They made it to Boston. Because, you know, they are awesome. This write up talks about their trip through Eastern New York, with pictures of them riding through Albany (and I’m in one!). I’m glad to hear that they made it safely.

Buncha fun rides this Saturday, September 27th. On Saturday, September 27 at 9:30 AM, Save the Pine Bush is sponsoring a bicycle ride from the Civil War Monument in Washington Park to the Pine Bush Discovery Center on Route 155, north of Washington Avenue Extension. Once at the Discovery Center, we...

While I’m here, I’ll post this bit: How do the Open Source software movement, bicycle sub-culture, guerilla gardening, and the Burning Man Festival fit together? Author and Critical Mass co-founder Chris Carlsson connects these dots as he profiles the social networks that are cooperating...

Over on Dinosaurs and Robots, they have a post about velocars. The fuel rationing … is not a 1970’s fuel crisis, but the restrictions that were in place during the German occupation of France during World War II. As the aforementioned (and excellent) Microcar Museum notes, “It was the...

There’s a pretty big, and rather well written, article about bicycling in the Capital Region in this week’s Metroland. Pick that up, or read it here. Tips for bicycle commuting Wear a helmet. A helmet is the single most effective way to prevent head injury resulting from a bicycle crash,...