Bike Infrastructure Where You Live
Get ready for another Streetsblog Network slide show.
May 12, 2010
Maine DOT Leaves Portland Pedestrians Stranded
This morning on Streetsblog Network, Rights of Way, a blog in Portland, Maine, writes about how the Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) is trying to push through a highway-widening plan near the city's scenic Back Cove.
May 12, 2010
The Great Bicyclist Responsibility Debate Continues
Today on the Streetsblog Network, Boston Biker takes issue with a recent column in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine about how people on bicycles need to "earn" respect on the road. In the view of the Globe’s Doug Most, it’s essentially the responsibility of bicyclists to stay out of the way of motor vehicles and to ride with the assumption that they’re invisible.
May 11, 2010
Brookings Report: “Bright Flight” Transforming Cities and Suburbs
The suburbs of America are not what they used to be. And neither are the cities.
May 10, 2010
Should Transit Systems Charge More During Peak Hours?
This morning on the Streetsblog Network, there's a lively and intelligent discussion going on at Jarrett Walker's Human Transit over the question "Should fares be higher during peak hours?"
May 7, 2010
The Fine Art of Balancing a Street’s Ecosystem
Think of a street as being like an ecosystem, in which various users — pedestrians, drivers, bicyclists — move through an environment, sometimes enhancing it and sometimes damaging it. When a street is out of balance, users suffer. So does the human infrastructure of the street — the businesses and residences that line it.
May 6, 2010
Pennsylvania Avenue Bike Lanes Provide Media Platform for Local AAA
In the last couple of days, several of our Washington, D.C.-area contributors have been writing about anti-cycling rhetoric coming from the local AAA chapter.
May 5, 2010
In New Orleans, You Should Follow the River
Today on the Streetsblog Network, there's a lovely post about the geographic idiosyncrasy of New Orleans, from NolaCycle Bike Map Project.
May 4, 2010
Helping Pittsburghers Kick Their Car Habit
Could Pittsburgh become the "green city" of the East Coast?
May 3, 2010
Will Big Companies Really Be Able to Resist Sprawl’s Siren Song?
The Harvard Business Review piece about forward-thinking businesses moving to urban rather than suburban locations continues to attract hopeful attention around the Streetsblog Network.
April 30, 2010