Humid Beings

where we actually went.

thanks for riding! 50 strong! let's help each other work on building the mass next week! the ride gets more and more awesome with each rider.

Critical Mass Ride! 6pm Jackson Square

come explore the new bike lanes, and ride the park! 12 miles, 3 hours

picture post: parking and lanes

No Parking at new Lakeview Grocery (Robert's)No Parking at Rite AidParking at Bean GalleryNew Bike Lane on Orleans! updating the map...

dirty coast compass rose

Just a word on navigation, (and i know i'm a million years late on this) dirty coast has a tee shirt for sale with a singular "new orleanian" compass rose overlaid on the map of the wards. Instead of North, South, East, West, the rose displays "Lake, River, Downtown, Uptown."the…

CRITICAL MASQUE Cemetery Ride To-NITE! 6pm Jackson Square

CRITICAL MASQUE Cemetery Ride To-NITE! 6pm Jackson Squarethe dead drive the streets, burning fossil plants on their blind way.encased in steel, they no longer feel the sun, no longer do they feel the bump of the earth and the contour of the land,no longer do they hear the wind or…

Bike Ride to Delacroix

A bike ride to delacroix on a sunday football weekend. People thought they couldn't do it, people thought i was crazy, several people backed out, or only wanted to do half. I'm sorry that nothing was decided beforehand, but planning takes work, work that was largely unnecessary, thankfully. Thanks to…

Thanks for the StreetCar Ride!

Hey, all. just giving you the shout-out for riding the old streetcar network with us this past month. check the tour map here:and the handout here:We rode 50+ strong through the streets, no fuss, really. After a bit of rain, and a pause to say hey to former mayor Ray…

SnoBall Search Mid-Month Rides!

New Orleans Critical Mass is organizing fun, casual, mid-month rides to highlight some really awesome things in our city. This summer, it's Snoballs.Snoballs, if you don't know, are popular summertime treats made with saved ice, favored syrups, and sometimes condensed milk or ice cream if you want to get fancy…

Thanks, new orleans, for an awesome Wetlands Ride.

Hey!  come out 13th August for our first Snoball search ride!  I don't know how it's all going to work out, but i know we will be riding and eating snoballs in uptown and metairie for a little bit.  It might look something like this:or not. meet in the parkinglot…

Mudslide into the Wetlands: Critical Mass Friday July 30th, 6pm Jackson Square

join us for the ride of your lives!http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2263490258&v=app_2344061033&ref=ts#!/event.php?eid=139155372763892&index=1It's over right? the well is capped (almost), and we can just do back to thinking nothing ever happened, right?The reality is the oil and the nightmare of coastal land loss is still among us, although more people across the nation and the…

Thanks y'all! Riding Strong through the Suburbs!

Thanks to everyone for another great ride. join us next month, when we will ride into our urban wetlands and beaches.We rode 70 strong into metry, lakeview, and through the city park neighborhoods. Although we avoided all the bourgie mansions I wanted to pass en masse, we still fulfilled dreams…

Our good friends at RUBARB need your help!

This was sent to me from Liz of RUBARB. If you can help in anyway, please contact them!*********************************dear fans and friends of RUBARB--we are closing down!! st mary of the angels, where we have been for over4 years and have evolved into something quite wonderful, has asked us toleave their…

Rim and Spoke: Downtown is not Uptown.

Hey, it's been a while. I've been busy helping promote Critical Mass in the wake of the oil disaster. Hope you've made it out. But you should know that I'm going to step back my involvement with Mass a bit in the coming months.Anyone want to ride out to Delacroix…

Critical Mass: victory. Dead Pelicans Ride Monday 5pm Jackson Sq

Thanks corkers! Thanks everyone! an amazingly fun ride, yeah.150 in number, we rode down canal to the cheers of onlookers. Afterone hiccup at City Park Ave, we strolled down Metairie Rd, broke, thentook a left on Airline.Because of a slight miscommunication, we ended up on the originalroute, Shrewsbury. which unfortunately…

Street Bucklin' Heat, Y'all

From the nola.com feed:http://www.nola.com/traffic/index.ssf/2010/05/five_kenner_streets_buckle_in_intense_heat.htmlone wonders why we pave the GMO with materials that can't withstand the environment and compact the soil. By Mary Sparacello, The Times-Picayune May 25, 2010, 5:13PM At least five locations on Kenner streets have buckled during the hot temperatures of the past four days, City Hall…

Banner Making this Tuesday 7pm @Nowe Miasto

No need to Drill, no need to Spill or Kill:let's make Banners, to help set the tone for our ride this Friday, May 28th, 6pm.We are meeting at Nowe Miasto, at the end of Jane Place, off Broad and Banks in MidCity. The time is 7pm Tuesday, the 25th. Please…

TOMORROW (SATURDAY) - ANNUAL BICYCLE SECOND LINE PARADE!!!!

Twitter @mbcnola, #Bike2ndLine---------------------------------------http://www.mbcnola.org/SecondLine.htmlWHAT: 2010 Bicycle Second-LineWHO: Featuring the Crescent City StompersWHEN: Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 formation at 10:00am; departure at 10:30amWHERE: Commencement at Magazine Street and Zoo Drive; After party at Avenger Field (Tchoupitoulas and Exposition Blvd.)View Bicycle Second Line in a larger mapWHY: To show cycling enthusiasm for New…

Link to download the latest NolaCycle poster

Last month, Scott, Rob, and I presented the NolaCycle project at the national American Planning Association Conference, hosted right here in New Orleans. Here is the link to download a copy of our poster.

Rim and Spoke: the River Built Everything

The River Builds EverythingThe first lesson, then, to New Orleans is to forget your compass and follow the River. Uptown is the direction Upriver; Downtown is the direction Downriver. Don't move north and south, but to the River or away from the River. While you are in the city, away…

Public meeting on transportation this Thursday at the Regional Planning Commission

Public input is extremely important in crafting effective planning documents. I strongly encourage everyone who cares about seeing multi-modal transportation improvements implemented to come to this Thursday.Details from Walter Brooks at RPC:Public Meeting - Metropolitan Transportation PlanThe Regional Planning Commission is inviting the public to participatein a transportation planning workshop.…

Commented on the event:
"Big 9 S&P Club Parade"

I'll be there as soon as I'm done with the NolaCycle ride in the morning.

Commented on the event:
"Sock Monkey Project 2009!"

What an awesome project!

NolaCycle Mapping Ride Sunday Nov. 22, 10am, Rome Park (Robert E. Lee & St. Roch)

Commented on the event:
"NOLA Bike Bash NolaCycle Mapping Ride"

Here's a Google Map showing routes of how to get to Rome Park from a few different parts of the city - http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=114301591370685006784.000478beeb8312a5c81a7&ll=29.997165,-90.042915&spn=0.08593,0.181789&z=13

Commented on the event:
"NOLA Bike Bash NolaCycle Mapping Ride"

PLEASE NOTE: this event is at ROME PARK at Robert E. Lee and St. Roch, NOT IN THE FRENCH QUARTER.

Commented on the event:
"Nola Bike Bash"

It's going to be awesome!

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"Mayor Wanted / EngageNola Press Conference"

I'll try to make it!

is hosting a digital map working session Tuesday 7:30-9:30pm. E-mail for directions.

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"Town Hall Tickets"

Has anyone received confirmation e-mails yet?

Come out to Loyola's Monroe Library Mulitmedia Room 2 to help NolaCycle build the digital database for a city-wide bike map. Pizza for volunteers!

Commented on NolaCycleLauren's post:
"NolaCycle needs volunteers this Sunday to help build the road condition database"

Yes. Volunteers will be repayed in pizza. The working session is also for volunteers. Volunteers who help enter data will be rewarded with pizza. How did this get so complicated?

Commented on NolaCycleLauren's post:
"NolaCycle needs volunteers this Sunday to help build the road condition database"

errr....I guess there is no way to edit comments? I meant to say "for volunteers" only once.

Commented on NolaCycleLauren's post:
"NolaCycle needs volunteers this Sunday to help build the road condition database"

PS....NolaCycle will also be providing pizza for volunteers after the working session for volunteers!

Commented on NolaCycleLauren's post:
"NolaCycle needs volunteers this Sunday to help build the road condition database"

The databases are in Excel. They'll then be imported into ArcGIS as a database file to make shapefiles.

needs volunteers this weekend to help build the NolaCycle road condition database. Meeting Sunday 3-6pm in MM-2 in Loyola's Monroe library.

eustatic

1325 days ago yes. come. and you will be paid in pizza.

is finalizing a location for the Oct 11th NolaCycle working session