Category: bicycling
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What’s Up With Those Green Markings?
Something looks really different about the Livernois bikes lanes than most motorists and cyclists have not seen or experienced in Michigan communities. Bike lanes help cars and motorists co-exist safely. Buffered bike lanes, which is the first type of bike lane in Ferndale, is another level of safety up from a conventional bike lane. The City […]
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The Way Finding Trees
Sometimes I wonder how I navigated getting myself from one destination to another–BGM (Before Google Maps). Before GIS mapping came ubiquitous on smart phones, I relied on AAA Trip Tickets to show me the travel directions from one state to another. Before AAA Trip Tickets, and in navigational mystery emergencies, a rolled up tattered metro […]
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Easy Rider: Ferndale, Highland Park to Detroit
Biking is the best way to explore Detroit. Well, any place really. If you want to experience the space around you–the sights, sounds and people–a bicycle is one of the best ways to cover ground while taking time to stop to take a good look at whatever catches your eye. My husband and I frequently […]