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Velo-City?

Posted by: Chris Steins

6 January 2006 - 1:00pm

Imagine bicycles traveling at speeds up to 50 miles per hour in enclosed tubes hanging above the streets.

Imagine this: Bicycles traveling at speeds up to 50 miles per hour in enclosed tubes hanging above the streets. That's the vision of Chris Hardwicke, a Toronto architect who is promoting his idea as Velo-City. Radio show host Carol Coletta talks with Chris about his remarkable plan during the next Smart City radio show. Coletta also will interview Michele Stuchell who is heading the C3 in Richmond, Virginia. She calls C3, Richmond's non-profit Creative Change Center, a 'launching pad for creativity.'

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Source: Smart City Radio, January 5, 2006
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The areas where we have severe blight and indications of more blight to come are basically the same as they ever were. How in the world are we ever going to move our community development selves into an alternative future that thinks differently about the challenges we face in our cities and low-income suburban and rural communities?
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