Month: August 2009
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Audit Finds U.S. DOT’s Transit Record-Keeping ‘Unreliable,’ ‘Inaccurate’
The disjointed state of "New Starts," the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) program to fund new rail and bus lines, is well-known
on the Hill -- in fact, House transportation committee chairman Jim
Oberstar (D-MN) recently quipped that it ought to be renamed "small
starts, low starts, and no starts."
August 6, 2009
Is It Time for California to Adopt the “3-Feet-Law?”
More and more states are adopting laws that protect cyclists from passing cars by requiring that cyclists receive a three foot buffer on their left before any vehicle can pass them. According to a recent USA Today article, fourteen states and the District of Columbia have adopted the three-foot-law and it has already passed one legislative body in New Jersey.
August 6, 2009
Denny Zane to Speak at this Weekend’s So.CA.TA. Meeting
The featured speaker before this month's Southern California Transit Advocates meeting will be Denny Zane, the former Santa Monica Councilman and Mayor and Metro insider who is as responsible as anyone for the passage of Measure R. Zane and the It's Time to Move L.A. Coalition organized the January 2008 that was the beginning of the movement that led to the sales tax increase that will fund transit projects for the next thirty years.
August 6, 2009
BYO Bike Lanes Coming Soon
Via Gizmodo: A laser device that allows cyclists to project their own bike lanes has gone from cool idea to prototype. Positive reponse to the concept from Alex Tee and Evan Gant of Altitude Inc. was significant enough to put LightLane into production. See the beta version in action above. Thoughts?
August 6, 2009
Getting a Fair Share of the Road
Today on the Streetsblog Network, we bring you a post from Greater Greater Washington
in which a bus and a bicycle have a bad encounter, leading to a
discussion about windshield perspective (that bus has a mighty big
windshield) and sharing the road. Antonio López writes:
August 6, 2009
Urban Expeditions: Tour da ART + Cause for Creatvity Workshop
Bring your family and friends of all ages and pedal on over to the Santa Monica Museum of Art on Saturday, August 22 for a special hands-on art-making workshop and cultural bike tour of Santa Monica arts venues, with special programming at each stop. Cause for Creativity: Tour da Arts also includes food and drinks along the way.
August 5, 2009
L.A. County Sheriff’s Checking Bags at Union Station
Alert reader and commenter "M" brings news that Metro has joined its partner agency Metrolink as a transit agency that randomly searches the bags of its passengers.
August 5, 2009
Portland’s Transport Research Guru Headed to Obama Administration
The U.S. DOT is expected to announce today that it has tapped Robert Bertini,
a Portland State University professor who headed Oregon's state-wide
transport research effort, as the No. 2 at the Research and Innovative
Technology Administration -- the government's home for stats on all
things transportation.
August 5, 2009