As some of you may have heard, bike share is coming to Rochester.
I’ve considered writing about it all sorts of ways. I thought about mentioning how many
other cities have it. Or how safe
it is. Or even the specific plans
for Rochester (warning: PDF). As you may have already guessed, I’m not about to do any of that. Instead, I’d like to discuss what bike share has meant for me over the past decade, and what it might mean for you too.
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Bike Share and You
Monday, January 9th, 2017Tags: Bike share, biking, cycling, High Falls, Matt Denker, Matthew Denker, McCanns, Wegman's, Zagster
Posted in Rochester News, Transit + Infrastructure, Urban Development | 5 Comments »

New Rochester-to-Henrietta Multimodal Connection Planned
Wednesday, April 1st, 2015[PLEASE NOTE: This was an April Fools posting. Joke’s over.]
RochesterSubway.com has just learned of preliminary plans for what’s being called the Rochester Southern Communities Active Transportation (R-SCAT) project. By building on Monroe County’s original 1947 highway plan, Rochester, Brighton, and Henrietta have agreed to the construction of a new, multimodal connection from downtown Rochester to the New York State Thruway…
Tags: Active Transportation, April Fools, bike path, bike plan, biking, Brighton, Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), Henrietta, highway, Multi-Modal, multimodal, protected bike lanes, Rochester, transportation, Walking
Posted in Rochester News, Transit + Infrastructure | 34 Comments »

Filling In: Aldi
Monday, March 16th, 2015Welcome back, readers. As you know, we’ve previously discussed things to do with Tops should Aldi be built at Winton Road and Blossom Road. There’s also been a discussion about how the construction of Aldi went in Irondequoit. Today, I’d like to take a look at a few reasonably simple changes that would completely change the tenor of the proposed development…
Tags: Aldi, biking, Blossom Road, Bus Stops, Development News, Filling In, grocery store, Matthew Denker, North Winton Village, Tops, urban planning, Wegman's
Posted in Architecture, Rochester News, Urban Development | 23 Comments »

A Beautiful Day for a Change
Friday, September 26th, 2014I’m generally a pretty happy person, but this time of year I’ve noticed my spirit has a tendency to drop a few pegs. Probably has something to do with the shorter days or whatever. Who knows. Anyway, it occurs to me that I’m not alone. There are LOTS of unhappy people out there. If you drive on the highways and byways of greater Rochester, you’ll get to meet many of them.
This week I foolishly let myself get drawn into not one, but two ugly squabbles. The first was with a driver who sped up to catch me from behind (in the right lane mind you) and then refused to let me merge when our two lanes became one. So, like a bozo, I whaled on my horn for a while and shook my fist in the air at the guy to make sure he saw me in his rear view mirror…
Tags: biking, commute, cycling, driving, happiness, mass transit, mass transportation, public transit, public transportation, Rochester
Posted in Opinion, Transit + Infrastructure | 18 Comments »
