Why Are Threats Against Bike Riders Considered Acceptable?
Today on the Streetsblog Network, Sustainable Savannah asks the question,
"When is it socially acceptable to threaten the lives of innocent people?" The answer, apparently, is this: "When they are riding bicycles."
December 16, 2009
Rebutting the “Empty Bus” Argument Against Transit
From Jarrett Walker over at Human Transit comes some very useful ammunition in the battle of reasonable people against knee-jerk transit-bashers.
December 15, 2009
Finally, Some Good News for Philly Cyclists
There's been a lot of bicycle news coming out of Philadelphia recently, and it hasn't all been good. Two pedestrians were killed in October by bike riders, including one hit-and-run incident. Those crashes led to a controversial proposal to register bikes and to jack up the fines for bikes without brakes.
December 14, 2009
Moving Toward Bike Boulevards in Austin, Texas
More communities around the country are talking about creating bike boulevards (see the recent Streetfilm asking why they haven't yet been proposed in New York).
December 11, 2009
Orlando Kids Take Back the Streets — By Bike
"They want to ride to school. So they do."
December 10, 2009
Streetcars and Street Design
This morning on the Streetsblog Network, Yonah Freemark at The Transport Politic talks about streetcar plans in Washington, D.C. Without better street design, he argues, the capital's streetcars could end up mired in traffic:
December 9, 2009
Cleveland Bikers to ODOT: ‘Let Us Cross the Bridge’
Today on the Streetsblog Network, we've got the story of some bicyclists who turned out in the bitter cold last weekend to rally for a bike path to be included in the reconstruction of the I-90 Innerbelt Bridge.
December 8, 2009
Slowing Drivers in London
Today on the Streetsblog Network, we've got some good news from Tom Vanderbilt's How We Drive blog about lower speed limits coming to London. The borough of Islington will be radically expanding the number of streets with a speed limit of only 20 miles per hour. The goal is "a 10-year target of lowering traffic deaths by a third."
December 7, 2009
Ohio Transit Riders Dumped by the Side of the Road
Earlier this year, Lorain County, Ohio, purchased 13 new buses for its transit service using federal stimulus money. Come January 1, those buses are going to be sitting idle.
December 4, 2009
T4A Calls for Smarter Jobs Policy
In yesterday's post about the Streetsblog Network's first birthday, I should have mentioned the crucial role that Transportation for America played in the network's conception and inception. We couldn't have done it without them.
December 3, 2009