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Wiki Wednesday: Funding Green Transportation With CLEAN TEA
The decline in driving makes the gas tax less reliable as a transportation funding stream. VMT graph: FHWA. One of the big challenges that federal policymakers will soon have to address is how to pay for a new generation of transportation investment. The federal gas tax, pegged at 18.4 cents per gallon since 1993, just … Continued
March 18, 2009
Wiki Wednesday: Zürich, Where Transit Gets Priority on the Street
Ready for some transit system envy? This week's StreetsWiki entry comes from Livable Streets member Andrew Nash, who fills us in on how surface transit became the mode of choice in Zürich, Switzerland:
March 11, 2009
Wiki Wednesday: Bike Boulevard
The inclusion of $825 million for Transportation Enhancements in the stimulus package should help pay for a lot of bike projects. Writing for Citiwire
this week, transportation analyst Sam Seskin suggests investing a chunk
of that stimulus money in bicycle boulevards, as opposed to bike lanes
or cycle tracks. What are bike boulevards? This week's StreetsWiki entry explains:
February 18, 2009
Wiki Wednesday: The Story of the Stimulus
Looks like the conference committee made quick work of the stimulus bill, with Harry Reid announcing that a deal has been reached much sooner than expected (perhaps a bit too prematurely). We'll have the specifics on transportation funding later tonight or early tomorrow. For now, relive the stimulus saga with StreetsWiki.
Contributor DianaD has added some nice narrative chunks to the entry.
Remember stemming the tide of Asphalt Age amendments in the Senate?
February 11, 2009
Wiki Wednesday: Twenty’s Plenty
Excellent StreetsWiki use by Streetsblog regular ddartley, who added the pic you see below to the entry on 20 mph zones. From author Andy Hamilton:
February 4, 2009
Wiki Wednesday: “Shovel-Ready” Pedestrian Safety Plans?
StreetsWiki author Andy Hamilton files this entry on an idea from our very own Federal Highway Administration: the Pedestrian Safety Action Plan.
January 7, 2009
Wiki “Thursday”: San Francisco’s Better Streets Plan
This week's StreetsWiki entry highlights an intriguing storyline that our colleagues at Streetsblog San Francisco will be covering in the months ahead. The Better Streets Plan aims to establish a citywide template for street improvements:
December 18, 2008
Wiki Wednesday: Farmer’s Markets
South Bronx Greenmarket. Photo: Susan Donovan Streetsblogger rex commented earlier today that we may be headed for what he termed a “Grapes of Wrath kind of economy” — one in which businesses prosper by paring down inventories to bare essentials while doing what they can to make themselves more accessible to the car-free masses. Another … Continued
December 10, 2008
Wiki Wednesday: Community Mapping
As
a kid I used to periodically raid my grandparents' stash of National
Geographics. Not for photos of women in scant native dress, but for the
way cool maps, with which I would wallpaper my room.
December 3, 2008