Burning up the newswires on the west coast: bike vs. airplane challenge.

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Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on July 16, 2011 at 11:19pm

"Bikes Win! Wolfpack Hustle Flies Past Jet Blue In Carmageddon Race From Burbank To Long Beach"

(Was there ever any doubt the cyclists would beat the airplane?)

 

http://www.slate.com/id/2299432/

 

http://laist.com/2011/07/16/bikes_win_wolfpack_hustle_flys_past.php

 

http://twitter.com/#!/KCET/status/92317030195277824

 

http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23flightvsbike

 

According to Twitter-based calculations by @bcgp, the unofficial finish times were:

Bike: 1:34
Metro/Walk: 1:44
Rollerblades: 2:40
Plane/Lost Cab Driver: 2:54

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Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on July 17, 2011 at 12:37am

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Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on July 21, 2011 at 1:44pm

A good article by the LA Times, except oddly, no mention of the team who took public transportation and walked, beating the plane by seventy minutes.  Nor the solo female inline skater, who covered the 40 miles fourteen minutes ahead of the airline passenger.

For Los Angeles, the public transit results are the most earth shaking.  Tom Vanderbilt, in his Slate blog, admitted to not knowing that taking public transportation from Burbank to Long Beach was even possible.  If Angelenos, with this demonstration, discovered public transport, bicycles, walking & skating as viable means of transportation, they could transform that ungodly place into something entirely more liveable.

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