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A Good Year St. Louis: bikes
6:35 am
Tue December 27, 2011

Cycling advocate calls 2011 "fabulous" year for bikes

Credit (Rachel Lippmann/St. Louis Public Radio)
Trailnet executive director Anne Mack stands outside the downtown bike commuter station, one of the main reasons she calls 2011 "A Good Year" for bikes.

With average gas prices reaching their highest level in 2011, more and more people began looking for an alternate way to get around.

In St. Louis, many of those commuters turned to vehicles of the two-wheeled variety.

Anne Mack, the executive director of Trailnet, told St. Louis Public Radio’s Rachel Lippmann as part of our series “A Good Year” that cyclists had a “fabulous” 2011.

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A Good Year St Louis: Food Trucks
12:00 pm
Mon December 26, 2011

A good year for mobile cuisine with St. Louis food trucks

Credit (Screen Capture via Sauce Magazine Video directed by Work/Play)
Hungry food truck fans line up for something yummy to eat at a Food Truck Friday event with Sauce Magazine in 2011.

2011 was a good year for St. Louis food trucks.

The mobile eats trend exploded on the St. Louis scene after one of the first trucks, Pi On The Spot, hit the pavement in 2010. Now, an ever-growing number of trucks and wagons take to the streets each day, tweeting out their locations so hungry diners can line up for a meal on the run.

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A Good Year St. Louis: Craft Beer
6:35 am
Mon December 26, 2011

Cheers St. Louis! It’s been a good year for craft beer

There’s a craft beer explosion going on across the U.S., and St. Louis is no exception.

As part of our series “A Good Year,” St. Louis Public Radio’s Véronique LaCapra headed over to the Schlafly Tap Room to meet up with St. Louis Post-Dispatch beer columnist Evan Benn, and talk about our area’s craft beer boom.

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