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Trickster Treat Choose Your Own Adventure
By Valerie Carrasco |
"The 2009 Halloween Themed Choose Your Own Adventure Alleycat is here. Costumes encouraged and proceeds benefit the Bike Kitchen."
UC Berkeley Extension: New Course: Walkable Transit-Oriented Communities
By Abigail Shull |
"New Course at UC Berkeley Extension starting March 11th: SB375 & Transit Oriented Development Introduction to California’s new regional planning law SB 375 (established by AB32 – now under threat by a ballot measure aimed at repealing it) that attempts to fight global warming by reshaping communities around walkable transit-oriented neighborhoods. Learn how to use […]
Today’s Headlines
By Michael Rhodes |
Elsbernd Files Muni Operator Salary Amendment, Starts Gathering Signatures (SF Examiner, SF Gate) Muni Operator Responds to Criticisms Directly on Muni Diaries Immigrants Say Muni Fare Inspectors Harass Them (Mission Loc@l) Mona Caron Mural a "Symbol of Tenderloin Transformation and Renewal" (Fog City Journal) Valencia Streetscape Work Delayed by Bad Weather (Mission Loc@l) More Pedal-Powered […]
What’s the Path to Equity for Women in Cycling?
By Angie Schmitt |
Last week, about 375 people attended the National Women’s Bike Forum the day before the National Bike Summit in Washington, DC. It was the third women’s forum, an event that seeks to empower female bike advocates and confront issues that contribute to women’s low cycling rate relative to men in the United States. (Just 24 […]
Making Climate Change Part of the Local Transpo Debate
By Sarah Goodyear |
As the leaders of the G-8 meet in L’Aquila, Italy, to discuss how to tackle climate change on the global level, we bring you a report from Streetsblog Network member GreenCityBlueLake about a victory on the local level in Ohio. It shows how advocacy organizations can reframe the debate over transportation spending so that addressing […]
Bad Planning and Bad Transit Put Jobs Out of Reach for Milwaukeeans
By Angie Schmitt |
Milwaukee is the poster child for the special kind of economic oppression that results from a combination of residential segregation, bad transit options, and job sprawl. This is a problem to some extent in almost every city in the country, but it’s worse in formerly industrial cities where big employers have decamped for the suburbs. And […]