| Coming Soon: The Broadway You've Been Waiting For [Streetsblog NYC] Posted: 19 May 2009 01:47 PM PDT Vehicles will be redirected from Broadway to Seventh Avenue, as the orange sticker says, "Starting Sun May 24"DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan today officially announced that work on new... (click through to website for more) |
| Cyclists Saved LADOT Bikeways, or Did They? [Streetsblog LA] Posted: 19 May 2009 01:24 PM PDT Cyclists are becoming more politically active, as these two Cyclists for Vahedi proved earlier today. Last night the City Council passed a motion recommending that the Mayor and LADOT not include... (click through to website for more) |
| Illinois Congressman Pushes for Pro-Bike Transportation Bill [Streetsblog NYC] Posted: 19 May 2009 12:57 PM PDT Rep. Daniel Lipinski (D-IL), an early supporter of the congressional "complete streets" bill, is circulating a letter to his House colleagues that urges support for pro-bike provisions in the... (click through to website for more) |
| Illinois Congressman Pushes For Pro-Bike Transportation Bill [Streetsblog LA] Posted: 19 May 2009 12:27 PM PDT Rep. Daniel Lipinski (D-IL), an early supporter of the congressional "complete streets" bill, is circulating a letter to his House colleagues that urges support for pro-bike provisions in the... (click through to website for more) |
| Cycle Wild wants you to get back to nature: by bike [BikePortland] Posted: 19 May 2009 12:13 PM PDT Riders enjoy a carfree, PGE maintenance road along the Clackamas river south of Estacada during a Cycle Wild camping ride earlier this month. (Photos: Dan Liu) It's easy to wax poetic about the... (click through to website for more) |
| Roosevelt Island Cyclists Given a Week to Clear Racks [Streetsblog NYC] Posted: 19 May 2009 11:46 AM PDT Photo: Roosevelt Island 360 Following up on last week's news from Roosevelt Island, where cyclists were informed that they would no longer be allowed to store bikes on public racks overnight,... (click through to website for more) |
| Blumenauer makes Portland bike boulevards a "High Priority"project [BikePortland] Posted: 19 May 2009 11:31 AM PDT U.S. Congressman Earl Blumenauer has made his transportation project requests public. (Photo © J. Maus) [Via Mapes on Politics] U.S. Congressman Earl Blumenauer has made his list of "High... (click through to website for more) |
| Tonight: Share Your Thoughts on Safer Streets at Gerson "Town Hall" [Streetsblog NYC"Town Hall"] Posted: 19 May 2009 10:52 AM PDT Alan Gerson. Itching to tell DOT what you think of recent changes to Lower Manhattan streets? You can tonight at 6:30, when the second installment in Alan Gerson's "Traffic Town Hall" series... (click through to website for more) |
| Lloyd District group proposes carfree Holladay Street [BikePortland] Posted: 19 May 2009 10:36 AM PDT Detail from a plan to make NE Holladay Street a carfree corridor. Download PDF (2.4MB) (Graphic by Parametrix) The Lloyd Transportation Management Association (TMA), a non-profit business... (click through to website for more) |
| Primary Elections Today! The Headlines 5.19.09 [Bike Pittsburgh] Posted: 19 May 2009 09:41 AM PDT Primary Election Day is Today! VOTE! Bike the Vote!! See how the mayoral candidates answered questions from BikePGH! The Headlines Doyle seeks Federal to link lower Hill to Downtown with bike/ped... (click through to website for more) |
| The Long, Ugly Road to a Federal Transportation Plan [Streetsblog LA] Posted: 19 May 2009 09:35 AM PDT You've likely been hearing a lot, on this blog and others, about the coming expiration of the federal transportation bill. Come September 30, Congress has to have a plan in hand to fund the nation's... (click through to website for more) |
| Is Death an Appropriate Penalty for "Jaywalking"? [Streetsblog NYC"Jaywalking"?] Posted: 19 May 2009 09:20 AM PDT Last Saturday, the Daily News reported that a man was critically injured when he was struck by a Range Rover on 14th Street at Eighth Avenue Friday evening at around 6 p.m. The out-of-control SUV... (click through to website for more) |
| The Long, Ugly Road to a Federal Transportation Plan [Streetsblog NYC] Posted: 19 May 2009 08:19 AM PDT Come September 30, Congress has to have a plan in hand to fund the nation's trains, buses, bikes, bridges and roads -- or pass an extension of the 2005 federal bill, locking in the same spending... (click through to website for more) |
| Congress Reluctant to Shine Light on Transportation Earmarks [Streetsblog LA] Posted: 19 May 2009 07:59 AM PDT The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is about to unveil a massive bill that will re-authorize federal transportation programs for the next six years. The bill will also include... (click through to website for more) |
| Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Emphasis on Safety? [Streetsblog LA] Posted: 19 May 2009 07:51 AM PDT There's a lot of focus this month on getting more people out and about on their bikes. We posted last week about the effort to normalize bike commuting, a topic that as usual sparked a lot of... (click through to website for more) |
| Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Emphasis on Safety? [Streetsblog NYC] Posted: 19 May 2009 07:44 AM PDT There's a lot of focus this month on getting more people out and about on their bikes. We posted last week about the effort to normalize bike commuting, a topic that as usual sparked a lot of... (click through to website for more) |
| Today's Headlines [Streetsblog LA] Posted: 19 May 2009 07:43 AM PDT Council Approves $7 Billion Budget Deal (Daily News, Times) Obama Accelerates National Fuel Economy Standards, Caps Auto Emissions (NYT, Bloomberg, AP) LAPD "Capable of Improving" Its Image (NBC4,... (click through to website for more) |
| Today's Headlines [Streetsblog NYC] Posted: 19 May 2009 05:54 AM PDT Obama Accelerates National Fuel Economy Standards, Caps Auto Emissions (NYT, Bloomberg, AP) NY Mag Calls Sadik-Khan 'Equal Parts Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses' Driver Hits and Kills 13-Year-Old... (click through to website for more) |
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