Month: March 2008
Streetsblog LA
Today’s Headlines
Billion Dollar Carpool Lane Not Enough to Fix 405 (Times) CALTRANS’ Bike Safety Plan for PCH Delayed (Westside Bikeside) Lawyer Outlines Defense for Metrolink Collision Caused by SUV (Times) Gas Prices Cutting Down on “Sunday Drivers” (Daily News) Ask Your ‘Car of the Future’ Question (Wheels) Ventura Officials Fret About Federal Highway Dollars (Ventura County … Continued
March 10, 2008
Bike-Share Update: DC First Out of the Gate
On Wednesday Streetsblog declared Portland the leader in the race to launch a public bike-share program here in America. But as reader Chris Loos pointed out, a bike-share system in Washington is actually imminent.
March 10, 2008
Today’s Headlines
SCAG: Vetoed AC Tollway Project Needs Replacing (Times) Bicyclists Take up Pedaling Art (Times) Some Question Governor’s Jet Commute (Times) Landslide Covers Sepulveda (Times, Car Crashes Cost SoCal More Than Congestion (Metro Rider, LAist, Daily Breeze) Foothill Freeway Commuters Face More Green, Red Lights (Daily News) Mayor: No Comment on Pico/Olympic Delay (Times) L.A. Sniper … Continued
March 7, 2008
All Eyes on Portland at Bike Summit
An organized ride on one of Portland's bike boulevards.
March 7, 2008
Red Line Will Be First to Have Automated Train Arrival Info
I can get more information off this screen in Shanghai than I can at Wilshire/Vermont
March 6, 2008
Bike Network 2.0
One of the more intriguing stories at yesterday's National Bike Summit in Washington D.C. came from Nicole Freedman, who was appointed Boston's first bike czar last September. A planner and one-time professional cyclist, Freedman was charged with building a bike network out of nothing, in a city routinely ranked among the nation's worst for bicycling, on a shoestring budget.
March 6, 2008