Greg Spencer
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| Occupation | Editor |
|---|---|
| Location | Budapest, Pest, Hungary |
| Introduction | I'm a career journalist and now work as a project manager in the Green Transport section of the Regional Environmental Center, based in Hungary. I ride a bike to work everyday, weather permitting. Door to door, it's 22 kilometres, so I do lots of biking week-in, week-out, and since starting this regimin back in 2002, I've developed some opinions on the bicycling conditions in Budapest. In 2004-2005, I did a masters course at Central European University on environmental sciences and policy. As my thesis topic, I chose "Challenges to Making Bicycling a Key Element of Budapest's Transport Sytem." Alongside my research in Budapest, I did a couple study visits to Paris, an inspiring example of a city that has built up a cycling culture from the ground up through focused investments. Since then, I've made presentations based on this research at seminars on sustainable transport and at a forum at Budapest City Hall concerning the development plans for transport cycling. |
| Interests | Bicycling as transport, bicycling as fun, sustainable transport, beer as means of hydration, beer as fun, kerékpár, bringa, bicikli, bicaj, bicycle, bike |
| Favorite movies | The Shining, Casablanca, Rosemary's Baby, Deliverance, Breaking Away |
| Favorite music | Guided by Voices, The Minutemen, The Stooges, Nirvana, Charles Mingus, Steve Earle, Aimee Mann, Stig Roar Husby |
| Favorite books | Confederacy of Dunces, Thank You for Smoking, Budding Prospects, almost anything by Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry Turns 40 |