AlternativeTransportation

I sense yet another rising trend thanks to the rising price of gas: pedicabs.You probably know what I'm talking about, even if you don't know the word -- if you've seen someone pedaling on a bicycle-like vehicle, pulling a few people behind him -- you've likely seen a pedicab.Half bicycle, half...

This morning after I dropped my kids off at their respective camps, I counted no less than five Vespas on the road. Maybe that doesn't sound like a remarkable number to you, but this is Los Angeles, not Italy. Vespas were always considered a quaint novelty.Now, however, as gas hovers at around...