Month: November 2012

"My son calls it "Poo-poo Island," said Heather Presha of Stocker Plaza, a sizeable grassy island at the intersection of 8th and Garthwaite Aves.

Green Friday: A Truly Free Market

Have you ever heard of the 85 percent rule in traffic engineering? I hadn't until I tried to get the speed limit lowered on my residential street, which is home to a K-8 elementary school in Cleveland's Detroit Shoreway neighborhood.

Congress has seven weeks to come to some sort of agreement on the so-called "fiscal cliff," with two of those weeks devoted to photo ops and turkey dinners. The consequences are real: Transportation programs paid out of general fund transfers to the Highway Trust Fund, rather than gas tax receipts, are not exempt from the automatic spending cuts that are part of the fiscal cliff. Non-Trust Fund programs (Amtrak, New Starts, TIGER) are also vulnerable, and are expected to get a 7.6 to 8.2 percent cut taken out of them, according to Larry Ehl at Transportation Issues Daily.

More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill

The music in this time-lapse video by William Campbell captures the solemn mood of the bike community following Deane's death. This ride was completed on September 27, 2011. Five days after Deane's death.

Tourists arriving in Hollywood from all over the world are fascinated, at first. The Walk of Fame, historic Hollywood and Vine, glamorous Hollywood & Highland shopping center and Grauman’s theater – all of these attractions make an impression...

Stretching from the northern tip of the 9th District where Long Beach meets Paramount all the way southward to the current court house downtown, the project to build a bike boulevard catering to the more marginalized and less affluent neighborhoods of Long Beach was key to the city's proposed ideal of becoming the "nation's most bike friendly city." At the time, City Manager Pat West knew that a city-wide program catering to biking could easily be created via grants: they would be easy to write given the mantra's wide applicability.

This is the first of two posts examining Rep. Bill Shuster's candidacy for the chairmanship of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. We'll post the second one, focused on his positions on bike/ped programs and funding issues, tomorrow.