When “Safety” Only Means Safety for Automobiles
The process of building roads in this country is underpinned by
myriad assumptions and biases that favor automobiles. These biases are
nearly invisible to most citizens, even though they have a profound
effect on the built environment we all must move through every day.
December 21, 2009
Debate Over Parking in Missoula, Montana
Today from the Streetsblog Network, a report from Imagine No Cars in Missoula, Montana, a city that is at a planning crossroads. Missoulians can continue with the familiar strategy of more roads, more parking, more space for cars — or they can try to envision a different future. The issue heated up recently when an … Continued
December 18, 2009
NJ Editor Blames Anyone But Drivers for Ped Deaths
Today on the Streetsblog Network, more windshield perspective from journalists, via WalkBike Jersey.
Andy B, the blog's author (and a frequent commenter on this site),
writes about an Atlantic City newspaper editor who has come up with a bizarre theory about who is responsible for the rising tide of pedestrian deaths in the Garden State.
December 17, 2009
Why Are Threats Against Bike Riders Considered Acceptable?
Today on the Streetsblog Network, Sustainable Savannah
asks the question, "When is it socially acceptable to threaten the
lives of innocent people?" The answer, apparently, is this: "When they
are riding bicycles."
December 16, 2009
Rebutting the “Empty Bus” Argument Against Transit
From Jarrett Walker over at Human Transit comes some very useful ammunition in the battle of reasonable people against knee-jerk transit-bashers.
December 15, 2009
Finally, Some Good News for Philly Cyclists
There’s been a lot of bicycle news coming out of Philadelphia recently, and it hasn’t all been good. Two pedestrians were killed in October by bike riders, including one hit-and-run incident. Those crashes led to a controversial proposal to register bikes and to jack up the fines for bikes without brakes. These bike riders will … Continued
December 14, 2009
Orlando Kids Take Back the Streets — By Bike
"They want to ride to school. So they do."
December 10, 2009
Streetcars and Street Design
This morning on the Streetsblog Network, Yonah Freemark at The Transport Politic
talks about streetcar plans in Washington, D.C. Without better street
design, he argues, the capital's streetcars could end up mired in
traffic:
December 9, 2009
Cleveland Bikers to ODOT: “Let Us Cross the Bridge” by Sarah Goodyear
Today on the Streetsblog Network,
we've got the story of some bicyclists who turned out in the bitter
cold last weekend to rally for a bike path to be included in the
reconstruction of the I-90 Innerbelt Bridge.
December 8, 2009
Slowing Drivers in London
Today on the Streetsblog Network, we've got some good news from Tom Vanderbilt's How We Drive
blog about lower speed limits coming to London. The borough of
Islington will be radically expanding the number of streets with a
speed limit of only 20 miles per hour. The goal is "a 10-year target of
lowering traffic deaths by a third."
December 7, 2009