Amy Westervelt’s article “Bike Sharing Grows Up: New Revenue Models Turn a Nice Idea into Good Business” explains bike sharing programs that you could rent a bike for a day, take it anywhere you wanted, but return it to any bike station. Paris has started a bike-sharing business in 2007, they had cool bikes, reasonable prices, and good placement of the bike stations. The bike program has 50 million rides annually. In the United States launched a bike- sharing program in 2008 in Denver which lead to other cities launching programs in 2010. Washington D.C. created a new problem, they had too many riders and not enough bikes. Portland, San Francisco, and Chicago are planning on releasing a bike-sharing program. Over time the bikes got cooler and
the system got easier, and plans were created to link transit nodes. Raj Janagam, founder of Cycle Chalao in India, found that people getting out of railway stations found using the bikes an easier and quicker way to get transportation. In the first month Raj had 33 subscribers for 30 bikes and made a profitable model. India’s Ministry of Urban Development decided to do a 10 city bike-sharing polite. The Ministry provided 80% of the upfront funding. Revenue is a reoccurring problem with bike-sharing programs. The Paris model has 24,000 bikes and close to 50 million rides per year which is 100-150 million bike miles. Jason Meinzer said “At a penny per mile, that’s one to 1.5 million dollars for the program alone” B-Cycle redesigned stations and bike with touchscreens with more intuitive user interfaces. The bikes track miles ridden, calories burned, pollution avoided, and carbon emission saved. A public bus cost around $500,000, instead of spending money on the bus the city could use that money to go towards bikes and setting up stations around the city. With type two diabetes and obesity rising, bikes can reduce those numbers. Bike -sharing programs can generate real profits by reducing pollution in form of carbon offsets.
Jane Langton wrote a very interesting book. It goes with the other five fantasies of the Halls family, The Time Bike. The name of this book intrigues many people. It is about a kid named Eddy Hall. He gets a bike that he always wanted for his birthday, after it is stolen, he gets a package from India, and it was a box big enough for a bike.
What Parents Need to Know about Playgrounds The essay, “Learning Responsibility on City Sidewalks” by Jane Jacobs, gives insight into the positive aspects that come out of neighborly interaction and expresses how the creation of playgrounds within the community can taint a child’s upbringing. The use of playgrounds is said to lead to a lack of joint responsibility which can have an influence on the youth within a community. The author feels that parks do not benefit pubescents in same the way that adult interaction does; therefore, they are frugal communal wastes.
To mitigate the social costs, Wilson offers a variety of suggestions such as raising gasoline taxes, but argues that this will never happen in a nation as democratic as the United States, another concept critics need to grasp (Wilson 22). He names what he thinks are more realistic suggestions such as creating more bike pathways, banning cars from roads with capability of being pedestrian malls, and charging tolls at bridges that go into the city (Wilson 22). He insists that although the social costs are being reduced greatly as time goes on, it will not stop critics from attacking it.
Throughout Amy Tan’s novel, The Joy Luck Club, the reader can see the difficulites in the mother-daughter relationships. The mothers came to America from China hoping to give their daughters better lives than what they had. In China, women were “to be obedient, to honor one’s parents, one’s husband, and to try to please him and his family,” (Chinese-American Women in American Culture). They were not expected to have their own will and to make their own way through life. These mothers did not want this for their children so they thought that in America “nobody [would] say her worth [was] measured by the loudness of her husband’s belch…nobody [would] look down on her…” (3). To represent everything that was hoped for in their daughters, the mothers wanted them to have a “swan- a creature that became more than what was hoped for,” (3). This swan was all of the mothers’ good intentions. However, when they got to America, the swan was taken away and all she had left was one feather.
The reaction and effectiveness of this poster might have been different in today’s society because Americans take full advantage of carpooling. The creation of Uber and Lyft are methods Americans use to carpool. This poster marked the beginning of a new tradition in American culture. Carpooling since 1945 has been a method to save gas and money. Overall during my analysis, I was able to put myself in the mindset of an American citizen during this time period. In today’s society, this poster would be effective to Americans including myself because we actually take advantage of carpooling in our daily
He shows that he is contemplative by letting us know that thought long and hard about this topic and that he has done his research prior to writing this article. The assertive tone is brought into this paper when we realize that Clark shows the readers his confidence on his stance throughout the article. He makes certain that the readers know his authority and that he will not back down on his belief that the L. A’s bike-share system is
public transit networks. But just how serious is the burden of car ownership, and how exactly does
The great changes in American society that came with the introduction bicycle in the late 19th century are often overshadowed by the influence of the automobile in the following decades. Today, bicycles are often seen as an alternative mode of transportation - a cleaner and more environmentally conscious form of travel. Because of this, it may be difficult to realize the incredible modernizing effects that bicycles had on American society when they were first introduced. Manufacturing and marketing techniques introduced by the bicycle industry were massive steps towards modern industrial practices. In addition, by making individual travel available to many people for the first time, bicycles changed the speed at which life flowed in much of America. Bicycles granted a degree of personal freedom of mobility to many for the first time, and their effect on the women's rights movement of the time was notable. Bicycles were used in war, by police, and by the postal service, among others. In countless walks of life, the availability of personal travel offered by bicycles had an incredible impact on American society.
Bicycling was an exciting experience for two reasons. First, it has allowed me to travel around the city. Second, it gives me a chance to hang out with my friends. I love bicycling, I think it is fabulous! I can now observe my city, the people that lived there, the architecture, and the trees and animals, etc. Sometimes in our life, we just need to slow down our pace. We're so used to rushing through life that we don't even know what we have missed, but It's hard to blame ourselves because we're busy about our jobs especially when we were living in the city. I was once like that; I head right straight to school when it's time for school. As I walk I would only stare at my watch instead if looking to my left and/ or right.
In the Cycle of Socialization written by Bobbie Harro, the article accurately shows how the world influences our thoughts and opinions. In the first step of the diagram called “The Beginning”, Harro makes the point that we were born on a clean slate and the world is not. Thus making the situations, such as our class, cultural group, and sexual orientation around us uncontrollable. Furthermore, we don’t know anything about ourselves. We are just innocents that are placed into an already established society. In the next step called “First Socialization”, we begin to learn from others around us. We start to learn from our caregivers so our thoughts are not really our own. The caregivers can come from your family or just people around you that
The more the bicycles created, the more children are facilitated to find ways of transportation. According to College for America (2015), last year before the partnership Spokes of Hope provided 47,000 bicycles to students worldwide. With the partnership, Spokes of Hope will be able to provide 75,000 bicycles to students this
The general pattern for people is that when they becoming older they are less able to vary life. Nikolas Westerhoff in his article “Set in Our ways: Why Change is So Hard” described the connection between humans’ brains and behavior during the certain periods of life. The key assumption is that in 20s people are more hazardous and tend to adventures, while after 30s this trend is less expressed. Author gives an example when the young generation can be even over risky and inconsiderate. The article includes the story about 22-year-old Cristopher McCandless, who gave his money for charity and hitchhiked around the USA and died in Alaska because of famine. When 40s – 60s are coming people lose their appetite for novelty due to the natural process, which reveal that old habits express themselves at those ages. The elder generation wants to feel stability continuing do customary things and taking care of their children or grandchildren. Also they are under the society’s pressure, when it is quite inappropriate being infantile or just make crazy travels instead of making a career and having a family. Author mentioned false hope syndrome, which means that people often procrastinate certain thinks that never be finished. That is why Westerhoff suggests doing everything “on a right time in a right place” because then it would be probably late.
Uber needs to focus its entry into densely populated areas of Canada lacking a well developed public transit system. These opportunities can easily be taken advantage of if Uber was to further develop its existing strengths.
The darkness loomed above me, the few remaining stars twinkling sporatically, as if the emptiness was snuffing them out.
Bicycles have been a form of transportation for hundreds of years now. Although many people choose to drive automobiles rather than riding bicycles, there is still a sizeable amount of people who prefer riding bicycles. In addition, Cyclists have always ridden their bicycles on the road next to automobiles. However, many people believe that cyclists should have separate laws, while, on the other hand; other people believe that cyclists deserve to have the same laws as car drivers. According to Grant Petersen, bike commuting is up to 61.6 percent in the last thirteen years, but since the national average is still less than two percent, it is hard to make a strong case for revamping the laws to accommodate the significant upsurge. In spite of this, I agree that the laws and infrastructure should be altered to recognize the differences between bicycles and automobiles because it will improve the safety of cyclists, as well as vehicle drivers, and create a more diverse population inside our cities.