Bike Lane Diary

Notice the cool hand crafted wooden scooters the kids are riding right at the end?

They should've been featured!

And why aren't the bikes being fabricated locally: send some of our technicians (bike builders: metal fabricators; mechanics; machinists) over with the necessary equipment/tooling. Start developing an urban micro-industrial capability.
 

It is a very good cause, but...

There are MANY people in the City of Detroit (not far from where I live) who live in abject poverty and can NOT afford to own a car. It would be nice to see some charity provide bikes for working poor adults right here at home.

Don't mean to rant -- just wanted to make the point that you don't have to cross the ocean to find folks in need of help with transportation access.

-- North of Eight Mile
 

Excellent point. As a Canadian, we have our own third-world up north ... besides the urban poor of our southern cities. And people/charities and the gov't focus their attention on the Third World, ignoring our very real problems right here.