Month: January 2009
Streetsblog LA
Only in LA: DOT Wants to Remove Crosswalks to Protect Pedestrians
(Editor's Note: Thanks to everyone who wrote in or commented that a "T Intersection" is a legal crosswalk in California regardless of whether it is striped or not. I knew that, I was going for satire and inadvertently misled people. Sorry for any confusion.)
January 23, 2009
A New Day for Atlanta — and for Urbanism?
This week kicked off with what seemed like a foreordained convergence,
with the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday leading into the inauguration
of the nation's first African-American president. Today we have a post
from Streetsblog Network member Joe Urban
that makes more connections between King and Obama, by looking at
King's boyhood neighborhood, the historic Sweet Auburn district of
Atlanta:
January 23, 2009
Today’s Headlines
Oberstar: Transit Pushed Aside for Tax Cuts in Stimulus Bill (TPM) A Visionary Stimulus Would End Six-Lane Boondoggles, Make Cities More Walkable (Bloomberg) Not Just for Drug Deals Anymore: The Greening of LA’s Alleyways (Grist) Proposed Ordinance Would Ban New Digital Billboards (Times) Metro Board Moves Forward on Four Transit Projects (LA Now) Overhead Wires … Continued
January 23, 2009
Congress Sending Wrong Signals to State DOTs in Stimulus Draft
Gary Toth is director of Project for Public Spaces' transportation program and an influential voice for transportation as a tool for making communities more livable.
In this piece he tells us how state DOTs are taking cues from
Washington as the stimulus bill takes shape. It's going to be more of
the same unless Congress starts sending different signals --
immediately. The names of DOTs have been altered (State DOT A, State
DOT B) to protect the identity of sources. Check out PPS's social network site for more from Gary.
January 22, 2009
Draft CEQA Standards Aim to Relax Parking Rules
CEQA Standards Require Projects to Provide Adequate Car Parking. However, that May Change.
January 22, 2009
Streetsblog Interview with Planetizen Editor and Children’s Book Author Tim Halbur
Last week, I had the opportunity to sit down with Tim Halbur, the managing editor of Planetizen and author of the new, hot-selling, children's book Where Things Are, From Near To Far, which seeks to explain urban planning to children. There's going to be a reading of the book this Sunday, January 25, at the Natural History Museum. For more details on the event, click here. For more information on the book, read our interview, below. However, before you start reading, you might want to familarize yourself with the term "urban transect."
January 22, 2009
Making the Connections on Stimulus Spending
Lots of news from the Streetsblog Network today, some good and some not so good.
January 22, 2009
Today’s Headlines
More on Ray LaHood’s Confirmation Hearing (WaPo, NYT, AP) Senate Coalition to Push for More Transit Funding in Stimulus Bill… (Open Left) When Crashes Happen in Glendale, Police Target Speeders (Daily News) Gov. Wants Pres.’s Help In Setting Emission Standards (Daily News) Ports Begin Cargo Fee to Green Trucks (Daily Breeze) Planning Commission Voting on … Continued
January 22, 2009