George Bliss (pedicab designer)

George Bliss is a world famous bicycle designer living in New York City.

George has long been involved in custom-designed freight bicycles including the "Dump Trike" and the smaller Pick-Up Trike and pedicabs. From 1995 to 2005 George operated a pedicab business (The "Hub Station") in Manhattan.

George famously coined the term Critical Mass in the Ted White documentary [http://www.livevideo.com/video/mercofspeech/2A5B86B2B7434CF3ACE1FA2687D939F7/return-of-the-scorcher.aspxReturn of the Scorcher] (1992) to describe the way cars, bicycles and pedestrians negotiate uncontrolled busy intersections in China. Ironically he evicted Times-Up Environmental Organization from The Hub Station in 2008 after members were uninterested in carrying out his suggestion that they hold die-ins in bike lanes and were un-moved by a speech and Tap Dance he did at one of their parties at The Hub Station.

References

* [http://slate.msn.com/id/90667/entry/90783/ Thomas Beller's] article in Slate
* [http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/cns/2002-04-03/203.asp Three-wheelin': pedicabs make inroads on city streets] Columbia
* [http://www.transalt.org/blueprint/chapter15/chapter15c.html Additional Uses for Freight Cycles] Transportation Alternatives
* [http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_102/notfare.html Not fare, sayys bike taxi owner forced to sell fleet] Downtown Express
* [http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1027/p03s01-ussc.html Tricycles the answer to NYC gridlock?] The Christian Science Monitor