| Weekend Open Thread: Palm Trees! [BikePortland] Posted: 16 Jan 2009 07:08 PM CST Bikes, Portland, and Palm Trees, a perfect winter mix. (Photo © J. Maus) Welcome to the weekend (I know it's still Friday but so what)! I hope you've got some riding in your plans.... (click through to website for more) |
| Eco-friendly cleaning business goes by bike [BikePortland] Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:50 PM CST Off to another "greening". (Photos © J. Maus) Local cleaning business, Q19 Greening, is looking to buy a fleet of Dutch cargo bikes to make good on their eco-friendly mission. I met up... (click through to website for more) |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:14 PM CST Parking on the left, tricky tracks on the right. (Photo © J. Maus) This week, the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation decided to remove on-street parking on the new transit mall ahead of... (click through to website for more) |
| What to Do About Fifth and Flower? [Streetsblog LA] Posted: 16 Jan 2009 01:59 PM CST Today in City Watch, Stephen Box talk about the need to improve pedestrian safety for everyone, cyclists, pedestrians and drivers. On Tuesday, Box and I did a tour of the intersection of 5th... (click through to website for more) |
| Resilient Cities Authors Visit Los Angeles [Streetsblog LA] Posted: 16 Jan 2009 01:35 PM CST Yesterday, the City of Los Angeles had two visitors, one from Australia, Professor Peter Newman, and another from Virginia, University of Virginia professor Timoth Beatley, to warn us that we have a... (click through to website for more) |
| American Diabetes Association: Tour de Cure [Bike Pittsburgh] Posted: 16 Jan 2009 01:09 PM CST Sign Up Today & Join the Fight Against Diabetes! Now in its 12th year in Western Pennsylvania, the Tour de Cure raises over $13 million dollars nationwide to support our mission: To prevent and... (click through to website for more) |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2009 12:56 PM CST ODOT wants $2 million to improve illumination on I-205 bike path. (Photo © J. Maus) The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has released their official list of projects to be included in... (click through to website for more) |
| Product idea: Light up your own bike lane with “LightLane” [BikePortland] Posted: 16 Jan 2009 11:44 AM CST [Via Dustbowl] Design duo Alex Tee and Evan Gant from Massachusetts based product design firm Altitude Inc., are making waves around the web for their new "LightLane"... (click through to website for more) |
| Streetfilms: Sharing Street Space in Paris [Streetsblog LA] Posted: 16 Jan 2009 10:45 AM CST Here is another Streetfilm by Elizabeth Press from her trip to Paris last summer. This time she focuses on shared street space in the City of Light, where the understood "street code" dictates that... (click through to website for more) |
| Dissenting Voices on the Stimulus from Around the Web and Halls of Congress [Streetsblog LA] Posted: 16 Jan 2009 10:34 AM CST The Streetsblog Network is continuing to digest the draft of stimulus legislation that came out of the House Appropriations Committee yesterday. We're featuring a post from Design New Haven that... (click through to website for more) |
| Today’s Headlines [Streetsblog LA] Posted: 16 Jan 2009 10:32 AM CST More on Release of Draft Stimulus Bill -- Transportation Gets Less Than Expected (WSJ, WSJ) The Whole Shebang Is Available Online (Transport Politic via Streetsblog.net) Smaller Transpo Stimulus... (click through to website for more) |
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