Month: June 2011
Streetsblog LA
Trading Parking Spaces for Park Space
What comes to mind when you think of your favorite park? A shady lagoon? A scenic path? Or is it a soccer field perfectly suited for an after-work pick-up game?
June 2, 2011
LAPD’s Bike Cop, Sgt. David Krumer, Answers Your Questions
Late last month, I asked you to submit questions for Los Angeles Police Department Sargent David Krumer, the officer who has been the point person for bicycle issues for over a year. Many of you responded with solid questions, and Krumer was good enough to respond to each of them.
June 2, 2011
What The Debt Ceiling Vote Means For Transportation
Tuesday, the House of Representatives took a “symbolic” vote on raising the debt ceiling without any “strings attached” – i.e., the trillion dollars worth of spending cuts the Republicans are insisting on before they’ll agree to raise the debt ceiling.
June 2, 2011
Existing Roads Slide Into Decrepitude as States Splurge on Highway Expansion
Got a road that needs fixing in your state? Don't hold your breath. Chances are your state DOT has been busy building new roads, while neglecting maintenance.
June 2, 2011
Bicycling is for Everyone: The Connections Between Cycling in Developing Countries and Low-Income Cyclists of Color in the U.S.
A Missing Story
June 1, 2011
Streetscast: Meet the Streetsblog Board’s Deborah Murphy
Over the course of this year, I wanted to take time ever now and then to introduce you to members of our L.A. Streetsblog team here in Los Angeles by letting you hear them discuss transportation issues in their own words. Previous articles have focused on CicLAvia's Joe Linton and the Safe Routes to School's National Partnership's Jessica Meaney.
June 1, 2011
Study: Building Roads to Cure Congestion Is an Exercise in Futility
We hear it all the time: The road lobby insists that the only way to reduce mind-numbing traffic congestion on the roads they built is to build new roads. Federal funding gives huge blank checks to state DOTs, which tend to prioritize road building over transit, bridge maintenance or anything else. But mounting evidence suggests that building new roads won't do anything to alleviate congestion.
June 1, 2011