Day: June 19, 2009
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Times’ Readers Freak Out at So. Pasadena School Bus Sting
Last week, the South Pasadena Police Department held a traffic sting. A group of squad cars laid in wait while cars whizzed past a school bus, with lights flashing and stop sign extended. Once cars passed the bus, the police swooped in and handed out tickets like candy on Halloween to the over 160 cars that didn't stop for the well-marked school bus.
June 19, 2009
Livable Streets: Urban Histories with Modern Lessons
Downtown San Francisco as seen from Potrero Hill. Photo: Joe Bencharsky This week brought urban history lessons to StreetsWiki from Livable Streets members coast to coast. Joe Bencharsky penned a neighborhood profile of Potrero Hill, San Francisco, where his family has lived for three generations. Says Joe: Partly because of street and freeway configuration, partly … Continued
June 19, 2009
House GOPers Propose Filling Trust Fund With Stimulus Money
As their committee's leaders butted heads
with the Obama administration, a group of Republicans on the House
transportation panel proposed to fill the $7 billion hole in the
nation's highway trust fund with unobligated money from the economic stimulus law.
June 19, 2009
A Bright Beginning for Light Rail in Phoenix
Everyone knows that Phoenix has a huge sprawl problem. But now transit-oriented development is on the upswing in this Sun Belt metropolis. In
December, the Phoenix region opened one of the most ambitious transit projects
in recent U.S. history: a 20-mile light rail line with 28 stops
serving three cities (Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa). Future plans include an extension within three years, with several new corridors being studied.
June 19, 2009
Less Parking, More Healthy Food
The other day, we looked at a supermarket in a densely populated part of New Haven that is unwelcoming to pedestrians. Today, courtesy of member blog The City Fix,
we're taking another look at urban supermarket planning, specifically
the issue of how to get quality food markets built in underserved
neighborhoods (so-called food deserts) -- where people often walk or
take transit to the store. They write about how cities like New York
and Washington, DC, can encourage supermarket construction by relaxing
onerous zoning requirements for parking spaces:
June 19, 2009
Today’s Headlines
DOT Celebrates “Surviving” Council Bike Meeting (City Watch) LAUSD Has $1.1 Bill Deficit, But Still Pushing Eco-Village Parking Lot (Daily News) Metro Enforces Safety Rules on Gold Lines, Don’t Ride Your Bike on the Tracks (EGP News) New Haven Citizens Use Cameras and SeeClickFix to Bust Speeders (NH Independent) Car Culture on the Wane: Struggling … Continued
June 19, 2009