פרסומים אחרונים במדור "סביבה"

Practice makes perfect.

I once tried it too and quikly gave up.
1) There is an unbeareable polution made by the cars (especially the *green* buses). When making a physical effort , breathing this smoke is worse than sitting in the closed car doing nothing.
2) Many times I was close to death thanks to our good temper , nice and concerned drivers (again especially the bus drivers) who brutally ignored my existence/rights on the road.
3) The conditions of the roads are horrible too. Lots of holes and parking cars everywhere.

Conclusion,
Until I'll move to Amsterdam I'm not driving my bikes any more (except when I'm going to the park driving for fun).

IF there was one, yeah, I'd drop my car anyday. When I was in Berlin, nothing was more comfortable than the public transportation. Add to that the fact that ONE ticket bought you passage to ALL types of public transportation (subway, trams and buses) for a duration of time, so you can get whereever you bloody want and not have to pay for more than one ticket - and you get yourself a great system. Of course, you still need a car for extra-metropolin excavations, but how often do you do that?

So, again - if there was such a system here in Israel, you wouldn't catch me in a car (though, I should point out that cars are still rather common in Berlin anyway, so I guess there are still some advantages).
The currect situation, where prices are so high, service is so slow and erratic (a train once an hour! COME ON!) and everything is so bleeding messy an uncoordinated, simply does not allow me to leave my car at home (unless I'm going abroad. If you see an amazingly dirty Citroen AX, know it's mine - and it's been stolen! Call the cops! Now!).

Moose.

Oh Pah-lease!
For about a month I used to train to get from Herzlia to Rehovot. Guess what I found? It's quicker AND cheaper to go by car:
Car: 45min to 1:15 hours.
Train: home to station: 10-20min (more if I had used bike), Herzlia-Rehovot: 45-50 minutes, station to institute (conviniently located next to the station): 10 minutes. brining us to a whopping 1:05-1:20 hours. And the price? Don't even get me started!

And, if I may, I don't cause a single dead person by driving. At least - I haven't so far. Not once. Not even slightly maimed. Not even a mild shock. Nothing. DO ME A FAVOR.
If I would be allowed the paraphrase - cars don't kill. People do.

While I'm at it - I'll add that I used to ride my bike to school everyday back when I had to go to school. It was hell during summer, it was bloody impossible during winter, and had I been at all sensitive to the desperate plights of the girls sitting around me in class, I'd have stopped it immidiately.
Here in canada, or in Germany, where I was three weeks ago - it's all fine and swell, but Israel simply wasn't built for bikes. Is all.

Don't blame me. I'm in Canada. I didn't touch that article. a sigh of relief :)

True. Any number above 10 can come with the singular form after it. (13 shekel, but 6 shkalim).

I'll shut up now.

I've been using bicycle in Tel Aviv metro area throughout my life. This is really great. You can stop near any store or a pretty girl walking on the sidewalk, not worry about parking, and immediately go back to the road.
I think the major reason bicycles are not popular in Israel is social: This stupid snobism - bicycle is not respectable. I had a friend - an attorney - who used to tell me: "Come on - until what age are going to continue like this riding bicycle"? Moreover, when I suggested he would use a bus to go to work in Tel Aviv instead of his car, he replied: "Come on - an attorney on a bus - what will clients think about me"?
But it wasn't just him - many people think that a bicycle rider is someone who does not have money to buy a car.
This distorted thinking is typical to the snobish-wealthy society that mocks modesty.
I would like to inform the readers, that in New York area all senior managers go to work using public transportation. And in Japan, the streets are full with senior managers with suits and ties riding bicycle to work. In most Japanese cities, half the width of the sidewalk is for bicycle and half for pedestrians. This is truly beautiful.

Has nothing to do with it. The Jewish religion has a number of "chores" that must not be done in a Shabbath. One of them is closing a circle, or transporting stones, and another is lighting a fire. Since to run a car you must use combustion, they cannot do it, and feel other Jews must not be allowed to either. End of story. Not that I agree, I think they can shove how they feel others should act where the sun don't shine (*), but that's Israel for ya.

We should all come over here to Canada. Lots of open spaces here!

(*) Where The Sun Don't Shine is a cave in the rimward end of the Discworld, where, well, the sun never shines in. Dangerous attempts to look inside the caves have proven in contains various essays, statistics, opinions, and, possibly, the feeling of religious Jews about how the rest of us should act.
Just thought you'd like to know.

Whoops, time's up. See ya guys some other time, Your Uncle Travelling Editor.

Go to:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/city.limits/story/p...
And click "gallery".
You will see a bus in Portland, Oregon, that has a bicycle "hanger" in its front. So you attach your bike, take the bus, get off the bus and continue with your bicycle.
It is also important to let people put their bike on the train.

Some people come to the Ayal and write in a way that seems to them natural, being unaware of the standards they are expected to adhere to.
Ignoring their "inappropriate" remarks is insulting and doesn't give them a fair chance to understand what exactly they did "wrong". Giving a firm comment is more communicative and helpful - just the way Dafna did in her original remark.