Well, another Car Free Happy Hour has come and gone. Whit presented on the upcoming Bike!Bike! Southeast conference, and Zach and company presented on the Louisville Student Cycling Society. Here are some random photos from the event!

When Bicycling for Louisville decided they needed a new office, they also didn't want the tedium normally associated with moving - a truck, packing boxes for hours, back pain. Instead they decided to do a 'bike move' - a green alternative. It works like this: invite lots of people to each move a small bit of furniture on their bikes. Part work, part party, the bike move today went from downtown Louisville to Clifton.

Witness, if you dare, Extreme Green Alternative Transportation:

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Lots more pix below the fold...

In the ranking for the top 50 car-free cities, there appears to be three main factors at hand. These factors include the age of the city, the poverty rate, and the prescence of a large university. Check out where cities ranked at wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_most_households_without_a_car

Update: new information from Tom Armstrong - click through.

Kentucky Representative David Osbourne has introduced a bill that would prohibit the transportation of people under the age of 18 in a bicycle trailer or "other apparatus."

The text of the bill is quite short and doesn't provide much specific information. However, what details are available can be found on the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission's website.  No one seems to know what prompted this bill's creation or what the likelihood is that it might pass and become law.

As more infomation becomes available, I will share it with cartky.org readers.

Sooooooooo......whaddya doing next Tuesday night?

You say you have a date with your television? With your couch? Need to paint your nails? You say the icky cold, dark, winter weather makes you unwilling to leave the house and the warmth of your bunny slippers and snuggly thing?

Wellllllll.......I have a something that will warm you through and through. Come on out to Car-Free Happy Hour! It's so hot, IT'S PRACTICALLY ON FIRE! The tasty food and bevs at Car-Free Happy Hour will WARM your mouth, large intestine, small intenstine, stomach, etc. The fascinating conversation and excellent presentations will HEAT UP the neural pathways in your noggin. The fab new frienships you will forge will SET YOUR HEART ON FIRE. The residual toastiness from Car-Free Happy Hour will keep you thoroughly thawed until Spring arrives.

Bring a friend or two. They like to be warm, too!

Tuesday January 12
5:30-8PM
@The Monkey Wrench
1025 Barret Avenue

Seeya there!

This month's Brown Alumni Magazine features an article about breaking free from cars not because of their impact on the environment, but because of their impact on our individual psyches.

http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/2427/32/

Update: A good time was had by all!

Don't miss out on the event of the century! The SECOND EVER Car-Free Happy Hour will be occurring next Tuesday, November 17, 2009, from 5:30 until 8PM at Third Avenue Cafe in Old Louisville! This will be the most exciting two and a half hours in the Louisville area's history.

Come join other peds, transit users, bicyclists, nerds, activists, neighbors, friends, community members, and maybe even mayoral candidates for scintillating (yes, I am a college grad) converstation and tasty vittles and bevs.

A participant in last month's Car-Free Happy Hour says: "It's stupendousness has doubled the price of awesomeness on the New York Stock Exchange."

ts stupendousness has doubled the price of awesomeness on the nyse!

So, there you have it folks. If you miss it, you will not be a square, you will be a rhombus.