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In Metro Portland, Car Collisions More Costly Than Congestion
Researchers have gotten good at quantifying the cost of congestion. And every time a report comes out announcing millions or billions in costs associated with traffic delays, calls for road widening follow.
June 21, 2012
Capital Bikeshare Subscribers Save $891 a Year
Here's a glimpse at what's happening around the Streetsblog Network today:
June 20, 2012
Is Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell Pulling a Scott Walker?
Just yesterday Virginia was receiving accolades for its successful, bipartisan rail expansion efforts. But the praise is giving way to criticism today.
June 19, 2012
What a Difference 60 Years Makes: Dragnet’s Hunt for a Hit-and-Run Killer
We have to thank Network blog Copenhagenize for pointing us to this video, from a 1954 episode of the classic detective series Dragnet. In this installment, Los Angeles Police Detective Joe Friday and his team investigate a hit-and-run collision that killed a woman crossing the street with her grandson.
June 18, 2012
California APA Pooh Poohs Statewide Parking Reform Efforts
Parking reform is always difficult. Decades of market-distorting parking minimums have made people feel more than a little bit entitled to subsidized off-street car storage. (See this reaction from a Seattle resident: "We need parking to survive.")
June 14, 2012
Ta-da! Money for Highways Appears Out of Nowhere in Texas
TxDOT is broke, at least according to the agency's actual records. But a funny thing tends to happen when someone in Texas wants to build an enormous highway -- money appears, as if from nowhere.
June 13, 2012
Want to Increase Cycling? Sharrows Won’t Cut It
Shared-lane stencils for bikes, a.k.a. "sharrows," definitely have their place in a balanced and healthy street system. But these friendly reminders to drivers to share the road have their limits as a tool to boost safety and create more inviting streets for biking.
June 12, 2012
Even Most Republicans Don’t Want to Slash Spending on Transpo
Last week, the House of Representatives, including most Republicans, voted against a measure that sought to restrict what the federal government spends on transportation to revenues from the gas tax. As Streetsblog reported, it was a landslide.
June 11, 2012
Meet the Bike Entrepreneurs Helping to Rebuild Detroit’s Economy
Yes, there is a bike business boom going on in the Motor City. It's sort of like an authentic version of Chrysler's "Imported from Detroit" campaign, except with bikes, and except it's actually taking place in Detroit.
June 7, 2012
Have Toronto’s Bike Lane Butchers Found Another Target?
How did Toronto -- a great global city of glass highrises and extensive transit -- come to be the only city in North America actively removing bike lanes? This city has 20,000 daily cycle commuters [PDF], and a population density that is well above San Francisco's. We're talking about Jane Jacobs' adopted home city here, removing bike lanes.
June 6, 2012