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Boston Endorses Parking Reform as Key Green Policy
"Folks, you ain't seen nothing yet," Mayor Bloomberg told an Earth Day crowd yesterday. "The best and greenest days are yet to come." The PlaNYC update coming in 2011, he implied, would have a slew of new initiatives to make our city more sustainable, and he's taking suggestions.
April 23, 2010
The Truth About Student Fares: MTA a Huge Bargain for State and City
A new round of MTA Board hearings gets started this week, and the biggest flashpoint is sure to be the student MetroCard program. New York City school children depend on free and reduced fares, especially since education reforms have led more students to attend schools farther from home. Yet the state has withdrawn funding for the program and the city has allowed its contribution to remain flat since 1995.
March 1, 2010
On Big Day for Bike-Share, Boston Mayor Envisions World Class Cycling City
Several American cities have made halting strides towards implementing bike-share systems recently, but which will be the first to launch the kind of robust network needed for public biking to go mainstream? Right now, the runaway favorite is Boston.
August 13, 2009
Boston Gets Serious About Bike-Share
The AP reports that Boston is looking to launch a bike-share program -- and not the skimpy, half-hearted variety:
March 5, 2009
The State of Livable Streets in Boston
The Boston Globe serves up a smorgasbord of livable streets storylines in this gripping read, "The Future of Crossing the Street." An overview of Boston's evolving transportation scene, the piece starts with a look at the "shared space" philosophy of Hans Monderman, the pioneering Dutch traffic engineer who designed intersections with minimal controls, signals and boundaries.
August 21, 2008
NYC Bicyclists Get Their Own MapQuest
Ride the City displays streets with bike lanes in green.
June 10, 2008
Bike Network 2.0
One of the more intriguing stories at yesterday's National Bike Summit in Washington D.C. came from Nicole Freedman, who was appointed Boston's first bike czar last September. A planner and one-time professional cyclist, Freedman was charged with building a bike network out of nothing, in a city routinely ranked among the nation's worst for bicycling, on a shoestring budget.
March 6, 2008