Month: January 2009
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Streetsblog.net What Might Cities Look Like in a World Without Oil?
Today on the Streetsblog Network, we're stepping back and taking a look at the big picture. Over at network member Worldchanging, Sarah Kuck writes about the ideas of environmental scientist and sustainability activist Peter Newman. Newman gave a talk in Seattle the other night promoting his forthcoming book, Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change:
January 14, 2009
Today’s Headlines
Southern California Draws Up Stimulus Wish List (Times) Another Crash Waiting to Happen at Fig and Flower? (Blogdowntown) Video of DASH, Metro Running Red Lights (Bus Bench) Daily News Wants You to Draw up Your Own Long Range Plan (Daily News) Congestion Pricing: Great for Drivers, Part 2 (Freakonomics) Obama Close to Naming ‘Car Czar’ … Continued
January 14, 2009
Cartoon Tuesday: Racing Down a Road to Nowhere?
I’m guessing the speeding metaphor in this cartoon from Gary Varvel of the Indianapolis Star (click through for Pelosi’s quote) is not intended to critique spending stimulus dollars on highway expansion. But if you stick House Appropriations Chair David Obey in the driver’s seat, it makes for a rather pointed comment on the reckless approach … Continued
January 13, 2009
City to Help Fix Streets Surrounding the Grove
One of the Faux Streets, Closed to Car Traffic, at the Grove
January 13, 2009
Update on Last Week’s DASH Crash and Pedestrian Fatality
News and opinion continues to come in on last week's horrific crash between a DASH bus and 58 year old pedestrian Gwendolyn Coleman. The most important of which came yesterday when Steve Hymon reported at LA Now that the police have determined that Coleman had the right away and a green light when the DASH bus slammed into her.
January 13, 2009
Stimulus Forces Consideration of Transportation Priorities
What are this society's transportation priorities? As Twin Cities Streets for People
points out, the stimulus package is forcing governments and citizens
across the country to confront that question. We've got their most
recent post on the subject today on the Streetsblog Network.
January 13, 2009
Today’s Headlines
Schwarzenegger Will Focus on Budget in State of the State (Mercury-News) Metrolink Chief Not Fired Yet (LA Now) NYT Profiles Rep. Earl Blumenauer, Bike Advocate Republican Leader Boehner Opposed to Bike Stimulus (Bike Commute Tips) Seattle to Replace Elevated Highway With Underground Highway (Seattle Transit via Streetsblog.net) CA Receives High Marks for Highway Safety, More … Continued
January 13, 2009
LA Times: State Should Act to Save Transit Funding
An editorial in today's Los Angeles Times takes the Governor, the Democratic-controlled legislature, and pretty much everyone involved in the dramatic showdown in state government to task for their role in stripping transit funding in the proposed budgets that are floating around Sacramento. Sounding more like Kymberleigh Richards or Bart Reed than the flagship newspaper for the Car Culture Capital of America, the Times doesn't pull punches as it breaks down the issue.
January 12, 2009