Smile, Philly, You’re Number One In Big-City Bicycle Commuting!
No, really: Philly beat out every other big town in the U.S. — suck it, San Jose! — in the US Census Bureau’s 2008 American Community Survey concerning bike commuting, which has doubled here in the last three years. 1.6% of us here in Philly bike to work on the regular; the rest of us, as you probably know, slowly ooze there on a tide of cholesterol and rage.
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Very nice, but the big news this week is the green-lighting of the massive $1.6 billion rainwater collection project here in Philly–the largest federally funded green project in the United States:
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October 2nd, 2009 at 1:03 pm
we hit that already, boss!
http://www.philebrity.com/2009/09/28/and-now-todays-good-news-an-oasis-of-rain-gardens-and-scholarships-for-the-young-gays/
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:35 pm
I stand corrected. Carry on!
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:54 pm
according to that list, somehow, Phoenix has become a larger city than Philadelphia… puzzling.
October 2nd, 2009 at 5:44 pm
@almostphamous: They passed us two years ago. It comes down to the ability to annex the suburbs into your municipal boundaries – most southern and western cities have it, we don’t.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/28/national/main2992110.shtml