campus bike project meets smilepolitely.com

Hoping to express as many conflicts of interest as possible, I wrote an article about the new Campus Bike Project for Smile Politely, Champaign-Urbana's equivalent of an alt-weekly. I also interviewed Joel, Smile Politely editor and Campus Bike Project manager, for the first Smile Politely podcast. See if the lede moves you to read the article:

When and if the oil runs out and runs postmodern car culture aground, Champaign-Urbana’s pretty well positioned to deal… at least insofar as it will still be pretty easy to move around town, scavenging for food and whatever else one does after cars are gone (besides, like, live in a totally unalienated utopian World Made By Hand). It’s completely flat here and with the roads free of cars there’ll be no excuse, really, for not always just cycling from point A (say, your non-alienated libidinal workplace) to point B (e.g. the collective farm where you’ve gotta pick up your broccoli ration).