Back Home in Coeur d’Alene, Where the Cars Roam Free
Pretty much everyone involved in the movement for livable streets has by now read the reports and studies about the importance of street design in pedestrian safety. But nothing can bring the point home like what happened to the writer of the Streetsblog Network blog Imagine No Cars: He was hit by a car.
January 12, 2010
St. Louis Blogger Tells Kunstler He Got It Wrong
Steve Patterson, the writer of Streetsblog Network member blog UrbanReviewSTL, has long been a fan of anti-sprawl guru James Howard Kunstler. But Patterson takes issue with Kunstler in a post today about the new St. Louis Amtrak station, a multimodal facility that also serves as a bus depot and light rail link. Kunstler just named it as his "eyesore of the month."
January 11, 2010
A Cyclist by Any Other Name
If you are a person who rides a bicycle, how do you refer to yourself? As a cyclist? A biker? A bicyclist? Or simply as…a person? Who rides a bicycle? As riding a bicycle for transportation has become more common around the country, the question comes up more and more often. The word “cyclist,” in … Continued
January 8, 2010
Bono, Get a Grip — Stop Fetishizing Cars
We heard from a few people over the holiday break who were disgusted by the Jan. 2 New York Times op-ed from U2 front man -- and celebrity environmentalist -- Bono. In it, the pop star called for the "return of the automobile as a sexual object."
January 7, 2010
Biking the Freeze Where You Live
It's time for another Streetsblog Network slide show. This time, in honor of the frosty weather enveloping much of the country (and the world), we're looking for your pictures of cycling in inclement conditions. Snow, ice, extreme cold -- we know that you're out there riding in it. At least some of you.
January 6, 2010
Isn’t Self-Sufficiency a Conservative Thing?
Anyone who's ever maintained a blog knows how easily it can burn you out. So we'd like to give a special welcome back to one of our Streetsblog Network members, WalkBikeCT, which has returned to the keyboard with a renewed sense of purpose after a few months of hiatus.
January 6, 2010
Sprawl Is Not an Endangered Species
Today on the Streetsblog Network, member blog Sprawled Out takes on haters of New Urbanism -- specifically, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist Patrick McIlheran, who wrote a piece lauding a designer of subdivisions named Rick Harrison.
January 5, 2010
Stadium Deals Drain Cities
We'll kick off 2010 with a post from Streetsblog Network member Hub and Spokes about the perils of subsidizing stadiums in the hope of getting a big economic return:
January 4, 2010
Debate Over Parking in Missoula, Montana
Today from the Streetsblog Network, a report from Imagine No Cars in Missoula, Montana, a city that is at a planning crossroads. Missoulians can continue with the familiar strategy of more roads, more parking, more space for cars -- or they can try to envision a different future. The issue heated up recently when an update to Missoula's parking meter system was debated in the city council:
December 18, 2009
NJ Editor Blames Anyone But Drivers for Pedestrian Deaths
Today on the Streetsblog Network, more windshield perspective from journalists, via WalkBike Jersey. Andy B, the blog's author (and a frequent commenter on this site), writes about an Atlantic City newspaper editor who has come up with a bizarre theory about who is responsible for the rising tide of pedestrian deaths in the Garden State.
December 17, 2009