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Get alternative transportation news and reviews on green commuting, electric cars and hybrid vehicles.

How to create a bike corridor
Fri, Sep 28, 2012 3:22 PM by Shareable.net
A closer look at the bike friendly 4th Street in Los Angeles offers ideas for making other city streets a better place for cyclists.
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Toyota's go-slow message on electric cars
Fri, Sep 28, 2012 12:03 PM by Jim Motavalli
Some automakers are cutting back on electric cars because the early-stage EV market is moving slowly. The big hurdles are high cost and range anxiety.
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Carmageddon 2 looms over Los Angeles this weekend
Wed, Sep 26, 2012 12:40 PM by John Platt
A 2-day shutdown of the 405 Freeway could lead to massive traffic jams. Or not.
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Road cleared for self-driving cars in California

Tue, Sep 25, 2012 5:05 PM by Agence France-Presse

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill clearing the way for self-driving cars to be tested on state roads.
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Why plane windows don't roll down

Tue, Sep 25, 2012 12:13 PM by Life's Little Mysteries

Here's an explanation why plane windows don't open, despite Mitt Romney's concerns that it's 'very dangerous' that they don't.
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Bicycle commuting: How does your state (and gender) compare?
Mon, Sep 24, 2012 3:35 PM by John Platt
Washington, D.C., has the highest percentage of bicycle commuters. Across the nation, 74 percent of bike commuters are men.
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Self-driving cars will take over by 2040
Mon, Sep 24, 2012 11:25 AM by Jim Motavalli
The push toward autonomous cars is gaining critical mass, with the disabled and the visually impaired perhaps benefiting first from vehicles that steer themselves. Kids who hate driving are also a factor.
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Midttrafik makes mass transit look cool
Mon, Sep 24, 2012 8:00 AM by Melissa Hincha-Ownby
A Danish mass transit commercial has gone viral.
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Hong Kong cyclists are stuck at government red light

Mon, Sep 24, 2012 1:31 AM by Joe Sinclair, AFP

The government designates cycling as a leisure activity — not a mode of transport — and refuses to encourage commuting by bike in urban areas.
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Hit the road, Jack: The incredible disappearing spare tire
Thu, Sep 20, 2012 11:41 AM by Jim Motavalli
With fewer and fewer Americans actually able to change a tire, and the auto industry looking to save weight and costs to meet fuel economy targets, it's not surprising that we're getting run-flats and pump-up kits.
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Cardboard bicycle gets rolling thanks to origami

Tue, Sep 18, 2012 9:16 AM

Video: An Israeli inventor set out to build a bicycle using cardboard.
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Green tires: Where the rubber meets the road
Mon, Sep 17, 2012 2:21 PM by Jim Motavalli
Bridgestone makes fuel-efficient, low-rolling-resistance tires and leads the industry in environmental innovations. And thanks to burgeoning demand, it also makes huge truck tires for tar sands oil production and mountaintop removal mining.
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Amazing engines promise 60 to 100 mpg
Thu, Sep 13, 2012 11:36 AM by Jim Motavalli
The two-stroke motor isn't new — in fact, there's probably one in your weed whacker. But Achates Power and other companies say they can turn around its image as a big polluter.
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Drivers, start your batteries: Electric cars to race

Thu, Sep 13, 2012 9:44 AM by Sebastian Smith, AFP

Alejandro Agag, CEO of Formula E Holdings, says the global championship will help finally make electric cars popular.
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Airplane stowaway found dead after thousand foot fall

Wed, Sep 12, 2012 11:30 AM by Eli MacKinnon, Life's Little Mysteries

A man who stowed away on an airplane from North Africa to London may have survived the flight inside the plane's wheel well before it opened and ejected him into the sky.
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