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If You Build It with Less Parking, They Will Still Come
We're nearly a couple of weeks into baseball season, and fans of the Washington Nationals are enjoying their new transit-, bike- and pedestrian-friendly stadium. The DC complex, with its transit links, shuttle buses and valet bike parking, is so accessible -- and city efforts to encourage fans to get there by alternate means so successful -- that on Opening Day its relatively few parking lots weren't even full, reports Greater Greater Washington:
April 11, 2008
Finally, Parking Meters Where Bikes Belong
Sacramento sends cyclists a clear sign that it's okay to hitch your bike to a parking meter.
April 9, 2008
A Lesson from Barcelona from 1859
A Map of the Barcelona of the Future from The Project for the Reform and Extension of Barcelona in 1859
April 2, 2008
Eyes on the Street: Portland Bike Boxes
Not only are Portland, Oregon's new bike boxes to be accompanied by a motorist safety campaign, they're also making them hard for drivers to miss at street level. Note the "Get Behind It" sign to the right.
March 26, 2008
Colored Bike Lanes Come to Tempe
This Vancouver Street Shows Two Bike Amenities We Should See in L.A.: Bike Boxes and Colored Lanes
March 25, 2008
StreetFilm: Traffic Calming Done Right in Melbourne
Clarence Eckerson files this report (and StreetFilm) from Melbourne, Australia:
March 18, 2008
DC to Devote Parking Fees to Livable Streets
In a first for a big east coast city, Washington, DC, is putting the ideas of celebrated parking reformer Don Shoup to work. Spurred by concerns over game day traffic surges caused by the opening of a new baseball stadium, the city council recently created two performance parking pilot project zones. The most important provision of the legislation is that 75 percent of the meter revenue, after initial expenses and maintenance, "Shall be used solely for the purpose of non-automobile transportation improvements in that pilot zone." This includes a menu of transit, bicycling and pedestrian improvements including sidewalk widenings, traffic calming, separated bikeways and real-time information signs for buses and trains.
March 14, 2008
London’s Very Cool “Look Out for Cyclists” Ad
Watch out LADOT and your Watch the Road Campaign. Here comes Transport for London with a new bike safety advert called, Do the Test.
March 13, 2008
Traffic Jam on a Petri Dish
This one comes to Streetsblog via the Sightline Institute's Daily Score, a blog covering environmental issues in the Pacific Northwest.
March 11, 2008