Day: March 24, 2009

Oregon lawmakers have been engaged in a heated debate about enacting an "Idaho Stop" law, which would codify what most cyclists already do: treat stop signs as yield signs and red lights as stop signs.  The issue has come up before in Sacramento, but has never been so close to adoption.

AARP announced today that it will join the Transportation for America campaign to advocate for a "broad restructuring" of national transportation policy. In a letter sent to Congressional leaders last week [PDF], AARP said that it is "working to enable older adults to live independently in their homes and communities throughout their lifespan, and transportation is critical to maintaining the community connections that make that possible."

What if news articles of shootings, stabbings and other deaths used the same language normally employed to describe traffic collisions? Today on the Streetsblog Network, David Alpert of Greater Greater Washington points to media coverage of a crash in Culpeper County, VA, as an example of our tendency to view traffic violence as an immutable force of nature.

Bike Plan EIR Should Be Certified By June, Lanes Striped By August (SFBG) (SF Gate) (Ecolocalizer) SFCTA Releases $36 Million of Prop K Funds to Speed Doyle Drive Project (Examiner) City Departments Budget $1.2 Million for Air Travel; Newsom Starts CO2 Offset Fund (Examiner) When a Tanker Truck Explodes on 280 This Weekend, Don’t Worry, … Continued