tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356723782465446786.post6589451233266243665..comments2024-01-18T09:29:42.707-05:00Comments on Biking in Heels: Back to bikingCyclerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12072776738519243521noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356723782465446786.post-59790349815073191822010-01-28T11:11:11.421-05:002010-01-28T11:11:11.421-05:00Rice class of 95/97 BA/ BArch I was a kid in Meye...Rice class of 95/97 BA/ BArch I was a kid in Meyerland, moved to Springfield Mo in elementary school and lived for a couple of years in midtown Houston after graduating from Rice.<br /><br />To elaborate on biking to work as a status symbol. Milan, like a lot of European cities, has a charmingly dense urban core, and a less charming, although often quite dense exurb of big housing blocks. There are independent small towns, but not many of the leafy suburbs that attract the upper middle class here. So to live in the city center, where parking and driving is ridiculous, is typically quite expensive. I got by by living in a fairly squalid building in an ungentrified neighborhood in the part of town that got bombed into oblivion during WWII, but most middle class people have to take a train in from the exurbs, and Milan doesn't have the kind of bike-train infrastructure that Amsterdam does.cyclerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10331461189944538729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356723782465446786.post-72603885855092056492010-01-28T08:51:36.252-05:002010-01-28T08:51:36.252-05:00Houston in college? Rice? U of H? I lived there a ...Houston in college? Rice? U of H? I lived there a long time. Both my kids (now grown), and my wife, were born there.Jefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18001520110617628401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356723782465446786.post-13180293197524033992010-01-28T08:49:37.444-05:002010-01-28T08:49:37.444-05:00i love this idea from your time in italy: "It...i love this idea from your time in italy: "It probably helped that biking to work was almost a status symbol"<br /><br />if only that were true here. if you live in the city, people seem to take public transit.JPTwinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10348686531981776474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356723782465446786.post-53630632741366545552010-01-28T07:01:57.303-05:002010-01-28T07:01:57.303-05:00Well said. The journey truly IS the reward.Well said. The journey truly IS the reward.Steve Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13650405341304401203noreply@blogger.com