The Great Bicyclist Responsibility Debate Continues
Today on the Streetsblog Network, Boston Biker takes issue with a recent column in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine
about how people on bicycles need to "earn" respect on the road. In the
view of the Globe’s Doug Most, it’s essentially the responsibility of
bicyclists to stay out of the way of motor vehicles and to ride with
the assumption that they’re invisible.
May 11, 2010
Brookings Report: “Bright Flight” Transforming Cities and Suburbs
The suburbs of America are not what they used to be. And neither are the cities.
May 10, 2010
The Fine Art of Balancing a Street’s Ecosystem
Think of a street as being like an ecosystem, in which various users
— pedestrians, drivers, bicyclists — move through an environment,
sometimes enhancing it and sometimes damaging it. When a street is out
of balance, users suffer. So does the human infrastructure of the
street — the businesses and residences that line it.
May 6, 2010
Pennsylvania Avenue Bike Lanes Provide Media Platform for Local AAA
In the last couple of days, several of our Washington, D.C.-area
contributors have been writing about anti-cycling rhetoric coming from
the local AAA chapter.
May 5, 2010
In New Orleans, You Should Follow the River
Today on the Streetsblog Network, there’s a lovely post about the geographic idiosyncrasy of New Orleans, from NolaCycle Bike Map Project.
May 4, 2010
Helping Pittsburghers Kick Their Car Habit
Could Pittsburgh become the "green city" of the East Coast?
May 3, 2010
Will Big Companies Really Be Able to Resist Sprawl’s Siren Song?
The Harvard Business Review piece about forward-thinking businesses moving to urban rather than suburban locations continues to attract hopeful attention around the Streetsblog Network.
April 30, 2010