Month: March 2008

 

Blumenauer Introduces the National Bike Bill (Carectomy) Villaraigosa’s Grade is Slipping Fast (LAist) Gold Line Extension Meetings This Wed. and Thurs. (Daily Bulletin) Good News: Car Sales Down (Car Free USA) Alleycat Rider Killed in Chicago (Bicycle Diaries, Chicago Trib)

James Rojas, Simon Pashuca & Georgia Sheridan will be leading the city building workshop.  Using a medley of recycled materials, participants will be introduced to an innovated way to understand urban design and planning process. Participants will run through an exercise that uses 3-dimentional forms to discuss land use and urban design and planning. Urban design and planning is a multidisciplinary process involving everyone. The model building exercise allows participants to think of their planning goals in physical terms. It also shows participants how difficult it is to build the "ideal city" even when given a clean slate.

Find the Bike Parking at Chavez Ravine

Ahead of this week's National Bike Summit in Washington, DC, syndicated columnist Neal Peirce wonders if 2008 will be "bicycling's best year since the start of the auto age." He writes about developments promoting the bicycle as a legitimate form of transportation around the world, many of which have been featured right here on Streetsblog:

City Fixing Unsafe School Crossings (Daily News) Backlash Against “Density Hawks” (LA Weekly) ‘The Masses Are Roused by Rampant Development’ (Times) Public Input Sought on Gold Line Extension (Daily Bulletin) Two Views on Pico/Olympic (Times, Larchmont Chronicle) Central City East Gets DASH (Downton News) AMTRAK Considers Tweaking Ventura-SB Schedule (Ventura County Star) Burbank’s Bad Air … Continued