Month: November 2009
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More at Stake in City’s Measure R Debate than Just Bike/Ped. Issues
In the summer of 2008, when Streetsblog first announced its "1% for bikes, 1% for peds. campaign" in what would later be known as Measure R, we never thought that a year and a half later we would still be fighting that fight nor that we would be close to a partial victory.
November 17, 2009
Introducing the Samuelson Gas Tax Increase: A Penny Every Month
Democratic lawmakers are discussing the possibility of a one-year
stopgap transportation bill but have yet to reach consensus on how to
pay for the measure, Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) said today.
November 17, 2009
Activism Success: Metrolink Riders Convince Board to Put Off Fare Hikes
I owe an apology to any Streetsblog readers that ride Metrolink. While I was obsessing about bicycle and pedestrian access to the Gold Line, the Metrolink Board of Directors voted to delay a decision on a 6% fare hike. After receiving thousands of complaints on the proposed hike, which would have been the agency's second in six months, to try and figure out how to make the cuts needed to maintain the current fare structure. Congratulations, Metrolink riders. You spoke out and the agency heard you.
November 17, 2009
Dems, AFL-CIO Step Up Push for Infrastructure Spending as Job Creator
AFL-CIO
President Richard Trumka today called for more investments in
infrastructure as one plank of a job creation proposal that he plans to
bring to the White House employment summit next month -- as
congressional Democrats continued jockeying over how and whether to
pursue and long-term transportation bill in the coming months.
November 17, 2009
Old MacDonald Had a Freeway
I usually don't pull story ideas directly from The Metro Library's daily headlines page, but this one was just too good to pass up.
November 17, 2009
How to Get People Walking in Cincinnati
Today on the Streetsblog Network, member blog UrbanCincy
notes with deserved pride that Cincinnati was ranked the seventh-safest
large city for pedestrians in the nation in Transportation for
America's "Dangerous by Design" study.
November 17, 2009
The Gold Line Is Rolling, Now What about a Bike Network to Support It?
During our ride on Friday, Steven Frien wondered a couple of times why there wasn't talk of having a bicycle lane on 1st Street running parallel to the Gold Line on First Street . Later in the day, during The Source's review of our review of the Gold Line, Steve Hymon upped the score by asking why there wasn't better bike planning along the entire route. After all, we know how much bike parking there is at every station, wouldn't it be nice to have a bike network to keep those racks full?
November 16, 2009
Feds Propose to Expand Opportunities for Biking and Walking to Transit
When it comes to infrastructure improvements that encourage more people
to walk or bicycle to transit stations, how long will commuters be
willing to travel? The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has
officially answered that question, proposing a significant expansion of
the rules governing how close bike-ped projects should be to transit in
order to receive government funding.
November 16, 2009