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David Byrne on Bicycling in NYC

Transportation Alternatives' Noah Budnick and David Byrne prior to the Manhattan Borough President's "Manhattan on the Move" conference, October 2006. Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne writes...

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1,200 Pack Town Hall for “How New Yorkers Ride Bikes”

Streetfilms' Clarence Eckerson was at Town Hall on Saturday night for the New Yorker Festival's "How New Yorkers Ride Bikes," hosted by former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne. Clarence wasn't...

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Cities for Cycling Launches With Blumenauer, Sadik-Khan, Byrne

Addressing a packed house in Washington last night, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), founder of the Congressional Bike Caucus, posed a Zen-like 'universalist cyclist question'. (Photo: Cities for Cycling)...

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By: Clarence

Mr. Byrne is also in the 2nd most popular StreetFilm here: http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/ta-rides-with-penalosa-david-byrne/

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By: Angus Grieve-Smith

That's a bit more upbeat than what he wrote thirty years ago in "<a href="http://www.talking-heads.net/lyrics_more.html" rel="nofollow">The Big Country</a>": <blockquote>I see the...

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By: Angus Grieve-Smith

Also, about the destruction of his childhood homes in Arbutus, Maryland, the <a href="http://www.talking-heads.net/nyt_db_2001.html" rel="nofollow">New York Times</a>: <blockquote>As...

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By: d

Don’t forget “Nothing But Flowers,” which imagines a post-industrial, post-car world where the shopping malls, highways, and billboards have collapsed or been torn down and turned into cornfields. It...

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By: Gwin

Paris doesn’t have a lot of bike lanes, although it does seem to have plenty of cyclists. Strangely, almost none of them seem to bother wearing a helmet. Stockholm has even more cyclists, though —...

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By: Jeff Strabone

Ealier than the lyrics cited above, on Talking Heads’ first album, ’77, he sang optimistically in ‘Don’t Worry About the Government’ about highways and the desirable apartment developments where they...

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By: Angus Grieve-Smith

Some people have suggested to me that the lyrics to “Don’t Worry about the Government” were tongue-in-cheek, and I’m inclined to agree.

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By: Jeff Strabone

I was being tongue-in-cheek, too.

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David Byrne on Bicycling in NYC

Transportation Alternatives’ Noah Budnick and David Byrne prior to the Manhattan Borough President’s "Manhattan on the Move" conference, October 2006. Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne writes...

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1,200 Pack Town Hall for “How New Yorkers Ride Bikes”

Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson was at Town Hall on Saturday night for the New Yorker Festival’s "How New Yorkers Ride Bikes," hosted by former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne. Clarence wasn’t...

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Cities for Cycling Launches With Blumenauer, Sadik-Khan, Byrne

Addressing a packed house in Washington last night, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), founder of the Congressional Bike Caucus, posed a Zen-like ‘universalist cyclist question’. (Photo: Cities for Cycling)...

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