Year: 2009
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This Week in Livable Streets Events
The week could be one of the most significant for bicycling in San Francisco over the past four years, as Superior Court Judge Peter Busch will consider lifting the bicycle injunction at a hearing today, Monday. Stay tuned to our Twitter feed for live updates. Also, Streetsblog Editor Bryan Goebel and Reporter Matthew Roth will be in Portland, Oregon, for the Congress for the New Urbanism's Project for Transportation Reform, so look for tweets and posts from the City of Roses.
November 2, 2009
Has the Government Been Bailing Out Sprawl?
One of the themes of the financial and economic crisis we've faced
over the past two years is that government, pressed into responding to
serious economic pain, has often found itself supporting the activities
that got us into this mess in the first place.
November 2, 2009
Bike Lanes Everywhere You Look
There's a lot of buzz about bike lanes around the network today.
November 2, 2009
San Jose Provides Model for Bay Area Growth and Transportation Needs
In our ongoing coverage of the adverse affects of traffic engineers' over-reliance on automobile level of service (LOS) measurements, we've examined how new amendments to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) would allow local jurisdictions greater freedom in choosing whether they want to develop their cities for cars or for transit, cycling, and livable streets. Simply put, if the CEQA amendments are codified, cities all over the state could become more like San Jose.
October 30, 2009
Bringing Farms to the Heartland — of Suburbia
Today on the Streetsblog Network, St. Louis Urban Workshop looks at the concept of "agriburbia" -- a way to bring some meaningful food production to suburban sprawl:
October 30, 2009
Women of WOBO Ride
"Join the first Women Of WOBO (Walk Oakland Bike Oakland) bike ride and roll out to Fruitvale for the annual Dia De Los Muertos festival!
October 30, 2009
Eyes on the Street: San Francisco Gets First New Bike Lanes in Three Years
Surprise! San Francisco has its first new bike lanes in three years, five days before a scheduled court hearing on lifting the bicycle injunction.
October 29, 2009