Biking the Freeze Where You Live
It's time for another Streetsblog Network slide show. This time, in honor of the frosty weather enveloping much of the country (and the world), we're looking for your pictures of cycling in inclement conditions. Snow, ice, extreme cold -- we know that you're out there riding in it. At least some of you.
January 6, 2010
Isn’t Self-Sufficiency a Conservative Thing?
Anyone who's ever maintained a blog knows how easily it can burn you out. So we'd like to give a special welcome back to one of our Streetsblog Network members, WalkBikeCT, which has returned to the keyboard with a renewed sense of purpose after a few months of hiatus.
January 6, 2010
Sprawl Is Not an Endangered Species
Today on the Streetsblog Network, member blog Sprawled Out takes on haters of New Urbanism -- specifically, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist Patrick McIlheran, who wrote a piece lauding a designer of subdivisions named Rick Harrison.
January 5, 2010
Stadium Deals Drain Cities
We'll kick off 2010 with a post from Streetsblog Network member Hub and Spokes about the perils of subsidizing stadiums in the hope of getting a big economic return:
January 4, 2010
What Big Snow Can Tell Us About Our Streets
So the snow that hit the Northeast over the weekend is gradually sublimating and melting away, and a couple of the blogs on the Streetsblog Network are looking at the difference in the way municipalities treated pedestrians and motorists during and after the first big storm of the winter.
December 22, 2009
When “Safety” Only Means Safety for Automobiles
The process of building roads in this country is underpinned by myriad assumptions and biases that favor automobiles. These biases are nearly invisible to most citizens, even though they have a profound effect on the built environment we all must move through every day.
December 21, 2009
Debate Over Parking in Missoula, Montana
Today from the Streetsblog Network, a report from Imagine No Cars in Missoula, Montana, a city that is at a planning crossroads. Missoulians can continue with the familiar strategy of more roads, more parking, more space for cars -- or they can try to envision a different future. The issue heated up recently when an update to Missoula's parking meter system was debated in the city council:
December 18, 2009
NJ Editor Blames Anyone But Drivers for Ped Deaths
Today on the Streetsblog Network, more windshield perspective from journalists, via WalkBike Jersey. Andy B, the blog's author (and a frequent commenter on this site), writes about an Atlantic City newspaper editor who has come up with a bizarre theory about who is responsible for the rising tide of pedestrian deaths in the Garden State.
December 17, 2009
Why Are Threats Against Bike Riders Considered Acceptable?
Today on the Streetsblog Network, Sustainable Savannah asks the question,
"When is it socially acceptable to threaten the lives of innocent people?" The answer, apparently, is this: "When they are riding bicycles."
December 16, 2009
City-Go-Round Offers Transit Apps, MTA Info Still Not Open
New on the transit tech front, from the creators of Walk Score, is City-Go-Round, a site where you can find and download mobile apps that help out transit riders:
December 15, 2009