2008 was a banner year in the "greening" of New York City. With a law signed by the Mayor in June, the Department of Transportation will be issuing an annual Sustainable Streets Index (available here when last I checked) reporting on goals and progress advancing sustainable mobility in our fair city. As part of this focus on sustainable mobility, the DoT also launched their Summer Streets program - closing Park Avenue from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park to motorized traffic on 3 Saturdays in August.
"What does this have to do with strollers?" you ask, sensibly.
Almost nothing, at first glance, except that I have a slight tendency towards sarcasm (anyone who knows me will be thanked to keep their mouths shut). Human Powered Vehicles (bicycles, pedicabs, and the like) are a large feature in the DoT's sustainable mobility plan (surprise, surprise, especially since the MTA is taking care of promoting their own greenness - did you know that they remove over 700,000 cars from our streets annually? I'm impressed). Of course, bicycles aren't the only human powered vehicle out there. Let us not forget the stroller, possibly the first (based on no research and ignoring the Flintstones entirely) human powered vehicle. So revel in your greenness - for not only can you parents too feel good about saving the environment while getting around the city, but you are in a special class all to yourselves. After all, anyone can ride the subway, but only a select few (...hundred thousand, annually) can claim that they have, not just human powered vehicles, but:
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