Word: biking
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...National Geographic, an envelope from the YMCA—that’s resting lightly on the marble island around the stove. I look at the photos on the refrigerator of Andrew’s sister cranking a pottery wheel and his brother hefting a javelin with a bike helmet resting crooked on his head, and Andrew himself, maybe five years ago, doing a cannonball into a pile of leaves. When I go to open the fridge’s heavy doors, the back door of the house opens at the exact same moment, so that the cool whoosh...
Read about Montreal's public-bike system...
...rode the highway, over hills, across a bridge and back. It was exhilarating. But on the dirt access road from Tatai to the highway, we hit a patch of sand and lost control of our bike. Next thing we knew, Keirn and I were lying on our sides, covered in red soil, wondering if we were still in one piece. We were. We had been traveling slowly, luckily on a dirt road rather than asphalt, and there were lots of people around to help...
...Everyone came running. A group of five women - our saviors - pulled their truck over just past our crash. A few of them hoisted our bike into the truck bed, tied it down and piled in after it. Keirn and I climbed into the cab with the driver, who turned out to be the proprietress of one of the nicer guesthouses in town, Koh Kong Guest House (Street 1, Koh Kong; +855-16-654-171); she took us to a pharmacy before dropping us off at our hotel...
Ultimately PlaNYC attempts to chart New York's growth by vastly improving energy efficiency in the city's 950,000 buildings, beefing up public transit and adapting to the impact of global warming. Though PlaNYC is as green as a new fairway - the city is carving out bike lanes and pedestrian plazas and expanding its parks - the deeper motivation is economic. If New York wants to stay on top, it needs to grow sustainably and efficiently, getting more out of less while improving quality of life. PlaNYC could be a model for megacities from Tehran to Tokyo...