April 25, 2010
This is a guest post by Slava Koshelev who works in Bishkek and Moscow as a director for a tourism company called Advantour. He has been working in tourism in Kyrgyzstan and Moscow for 11 years, and was born in Bishkek.
His post is in two parts. Part One is his first report from Bishkek from mid last week, and Part Two is an update from a few days afterwards. Slava gives us an excellent [...]
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April 19, 2010
Last week Toronto Mayoral candidate, Giorgio Mammoliti, announced that, if elected, he would introduce bicycle licensing as a way to help pay the cost of proposed new cycling lanes. This is an idea that has been raised before, and as the City of Toronto’s own website clearly states, ‘studies have concluded that licensing is not worth it.’
Besides this recent bicycle licensing idea, Mammoliti also proposed in 2007 that the army should be called in to [...]
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