A while back, I wrote a post on “food deserts” and my belief that the fundamental issue was not lack of close grocery-shopping options, but lack of transit options, and said that two modes of transit that were commonplace in Europe — bicycling as a means of transportation (with saddlebags or trailer for carrying goods) rather than just recreation, and mass transit with a shopping/utility cart to bring the groceries home — didn’t appear to exist here, and the inner-city... Read more