Another ugly chapter in the ongoing battle for the road between motorists, cyclists, pedestrians and the law was the focus of a story I wrote for Metro yesterday. A few days after one of their own suffered serious facial injuries in a hit-and-run crash, city bicycle messengers upset with what one courier describes as “rising [...]

Update 11/22/09 @ 12:06 p.m.: Signs of this enforcement from Philebrity and the Inquirer. Philadelphia police are introducing a bicycle enforcement campaign beginning tomorrow in Center City. Forgive the lack of a direct focus on journalism, the future of news and my clips on this, but, as someone who uses bicycling transport fairly regularly (to [...]

A personal journey essay of mine appeared in today‘s Sunday edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer. If I keep my hand steady long enough, I just might get a photograph of me racing down the steepest hill in Zürich on a bicycle. But I’ll have to settle for the shot of me standing on a dock [...]

By Christopher Wink | May 9, 2007 | Philadelphia Stories submission Larry Rosenthal is an old man. Tired hands and worried eyes. Worried eyes and a wrinkled forehead. He was once young and awfully worried. He wasn’t worried anymore, but his forehead, his eyes, they only knew how it was. He had been inside for [...]