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Results for keyword: cars

  • The casual violence of driving

    The casual violence of driving

    We seldom notice the animals killed by today's fast-moving cars, unless we're traveling slowly, on a bicycle.

    by Tom Carter, Sep 02, 2011
  • Road warrior

    Road warrior

    Ted Conover talks about roads in life and writing.

    by Matthew Fleischer, Sep 09, 2010
  • Some people just don't get it

    Some people just don't get it

    After a car accident, the author gave up driving and joyfully turned to bicycling everywhere instead.

    by Bob Sawatzki, Oct 22, 2009
  • The war between bicyclists and motorists

    The war between bicyclists and motorists

    Only in America do drivers seem to regard bicyclists with such implacable hostility.

    by Bill Schneider, Oct 22, 2009

  • The great American road trip

    In At Speed: Traveling the Long Road Between Two Points, W. Scott Olsen celebrates the world as seen through a windshield

    by Ray Vandersall, Jun 25, 2007

  • Fill 'er up with moonshine

    Chris Myles plans to fuel his vehicles with homebrewed ethanol, made in a still he built at his home in Silverton, Colo.

    by Fletcher Jacobs, Jan 22, 2007

  • Facts about greenhouse gas emissions

    Sprinkled throughout the lead story are "fun facts" about what causes greenhouse gas emissions and what people can do to reduce them

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Mar 06, 2006

  • Westerners slowly adapt to high prices

    Westerners are making a few small efforts to conserve energy in the face of higher prices, but environmentalists wonder what it will take to inspire a real change in behavior

    by Allen Best, Dec 12, 2005

  • Reading, riding and relaxing

    Architect Kevin Koernig, who commutes from suburban Littleton to downtown Denver, loves light rail because it saves him money, keeps him healthy, and gives him extra time to read

    by Allen Best, Nov 14, 2005

  • You say you want a railvolution...

    Westerners may love their cars, but the region’s rapid growth means that even the most ardent car-lovers have a stake in mass transit, and in Denver’s grand experiment in light rail

    by Paul Larmer, Nov 14, 2005
 

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