Streets Wire

Sacramento sends cyclists a clear sign that it's okay to hitch your bike to a parking meter.

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.

In honor of this year's New York International Auto Show, which officially begins today, we present this very special announcement:

Clarence Eckerson files this report (and StreetFilm) from Melbourne, Australia:

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.

 

Watch out LADOT and your Watch the Road Campaign. Here comes Transport for London with a new bike safety advert called, Do the Test.