Year: 2009

There's been a lot of bicycle news coming out of Philadelphia recently, and it hasn't all been good. Two pedestrians were killed in October by bike riders, including one hit-and-run incident. Those crashes led to a controversial proposal to register bikes and to jack up the fines for bikes without brakes.

Caltrans Workers Trying to Fix Bay Bridge Part Faced Down Weather (ABC 7) (CBS 5) SOMA Water Main Break Creates Massive Sinkhole (ABC 7) (CBS 5) (KCBS) Muni Track Problems Persist in Twin Peaks Tunnel (Examiner) Hunter’s Point Redevelopment Hearings Scheduled For This Week (CBS 5) Bike NOPA Tracks the Installation of New Sharrows Los … Continued

Rep. Betty Sutton (D-OH) was one of the prime movers behind the economically and environmentally misguided "cash for clunkers" program, but she is switching gears to help save transit in Lorain County, Ohio, where bus service could be canceled in 2010 after voters rejected a sales tax increase to raise operating funds.

As the $787 billion stimulus law nears its one-year anniversary, Congress' choice to route the lion's share of recovery funds through state capitals -- including state DOTs where misplaced priorities are all too common -- remains a sore spot for mayors and urban advocates.

More communities around the country are talking about creating bike boulevards (see the recent Streetfilm asking why they haven't yet been proposed in New York).

More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill.

Addressing a crowd of more than 100 people Wednesday, engineers said it could cost $40 million to $52 million to reopen the crumbling 125-year-old railroad tunnel between Mill Valley and Corte Madera for cyclists.

BART staff has announced the selection of the Parsons/Flatiron development team for the construction of its Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) and will ask its board today to approve the $492 million dollar contract to build the 3.2-mile elevated people mover. Due to the recession and lower construction costs, the OAC proposal comes in at $60 million less than BART had originally assumed it would cost when federal stimulus funds jump started the then-defunct project early this year.

"They want to ride to school. So they do."