From the BBC: "Bristol doctors are prescribing cycling lessons to patients with diabetes and other health problems." (via the Bicycling Advocacy list)

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The U.K.-based Observer: Congestion charging sweeps the world.

The city of Toronto has banned drive-through restaurants, citing "noise, traffic, urban design, air quality, odours, hours of operation, landscaping, illumination and signage, visual impact and land utilization."

Joanne Jacobs: "Sex, drinking, drug abuse and delinquency occur at similar rates in suburban and urban schools, concludes a new Manhattan Institute study."

Happy 91st Birthday today to Rosa Parks. It's a shame that the bus system she helped to integrate is mostly gone.

John King: "Bay Meadows and Rivermark show that it's possible to expand the physical definition of suburbia."