Thank God for Jane Jacobs the Highway Slayer
Jane Jacobs' legacy is so broad and complex I'm not going to attempt a big thinkpiece to mark her 100th birthday. In lieu of something long and wordy, I've got two short paragraphs and some images of the Robert Moses road monsters she slew in the 1960s.
May 4, 2016
After Countings Cars for Ages, Dallas Starts to Count Walkers and Bikers
They say "what you measure is what you get," and for the first time, the North Central Texas Council of Governments is measuring walking and biking activity in the Dallas region, reports Brandon Formby at the Dallas Morning News' Transportation Blog.
May 2, 2016
Car-Free Day Doesn’t Mean Much Without New Policies to Reduce Traffic
New York City is America's car-free capital, home to eight and half million people, most of whom get around without owning a car. When so many of us already live car-free, what more can come out of an event like last Friday's Car-Free Day?
April 28, 2016
Witness: Lauren Davis Was Biking With Traffic, Not Against, as NYPD Claimed
A witness who was biking behind Lauren Davis at the time she was struck and killed by a turning driver on the morning of April 15 says she is "absolutely sure [Davis] was not biking against traffic."
April 25, 2016