Month: February 2010
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Road Trip?: Alliance for Biking and Walking’s 2010 Winning Campaign Trainings
The Alliance for Bicycling recently set the dates and locations
for six "Winning Campaigns" trainings it plans on hosting in 2010,
which include the following:
February 10, 2010
First Lady Launches Childhood Obesity Push With Nod to Biking & Walking
First Lady Michelle Obama took to the mikes this afternoon to kick
off a national campaign to combat childhood obesity, emphasizing new
initiatives to promote biking and walking alongside a strong focus on
healthier food options in schools.
February 10, 2010
Fort Worth Commits to Radical New Bike Plan
We got an e-mail late last night from Kevin Buchanan, who runs the Fort Worthology blog down in Fort Worth, Texas, with some very good news for that city's streets. Here's what Kevin had to report:
February 10, 2010
What Is the Backbone Bikeway Network and Why Is It So Important?
Last week, the LA Bike Working Group began to release parts of "L.A.'s Best Bike Plan" in the form of the Backbone Bikeway Network maps and started a new conversation about the state of bike planning in Los Angeles. The maps, first published on three members of the steering committee's blogs, moved to LAist and then on to the mainstream media.
February 9, 2010
US PIRG: How About High Speed Rail for Every Major City
Now that the Obama administration has
awarded $8 billion in high-speed rail grants to more than two dozen
states, with $2.5 billion more coming soon, why not keep thinking big
when it comes to bullet-train expansion?
February 9, 2010
“Ad-Nauseum”: Audi Takes Greenwashing to the Next Level
Picture a future where a smiling multi-racial police force, who apparently answers to nobody, moves unchecked through society arresting and detaining people for offenses to the environment. Use plastic bags at the grocers? You're arrested, frisked, and handcuffed before being frog marched from the store. Set your hot tub at too high a temperature? You're chased, mostly naked, through your back yard by a hoard of police officers. Sound like a nightmare scenario dreamed up by a conservative talk radio host? Nope, it's just another greenwashing attempt from the same car company that mocks cyclists, bus riders, pedestrians and people who drive cars run on vegetable oil.
February 9, 2010
Service Sector Governance Councils’ Quarterly Meet and Confer
As I noted in my previous commentary "Metro In Transition", while the
Sectors are being disbanded the Governance Councils continue in their
role of providing oversight of Metro bus operations.
February 9, 2010
Report: White House Budget Office Helped Weaken EPA Pollution Rule
Pensacola, Florida. Springfield, Missouri. Fort Wayne, Indiana. All
three of those metropolitan areas have populations between 350,000 and
500,000, and all three would have been required to install nitrogen
dioxide monitoring stations near major roadways under a new
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule cracking down on the pollutant.
February 9, 2010
Individuals Can Make a Difference: A View from India
We turn to the Streetsblog Network for a little inspiration this morning, courtesy of Robin Chase — author of the blog Network Musings and former CEO of Zipcar. Chase shares a story from a friend in India, Vinay Jayaswal, who believes that meaningful change on the most overwhelming issues can, and must, begin with the … Continued
February 9, 2010