Day: September 11, 2012
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C.W. Nevius’ Fact-Free “Concerns” About Bike Lanes
Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius took another shot at stoking some bicycle controversy today with his latest fact-free piece sharing his "concerns" that bike lanes "may be on [a] crash course" with cars.
September 11, 2012
Georgia Prosecutor Continues Case Against Raquel Nelson
The impaired hit-and-run driver who struck and killed her son on a metro Atlanta road in 2010 has been released from prison by now, but Raquel Nelson is still being prosecuted for her purported role in the tragedy.
September 11, 2012
How Highway Spending Could Become as Transparent as Bike/Ped Spending
“There’s an inverse proportion of the size of a transportation program to the amount of transparency,” says Deron Lovaas of the Natural Resources Defense Council. While anyone can easily find in granular detail anything they would ever want to know about where bike/ped money goes, and they can get a pretty good idea of what's going on with transit capital investments, highway spending is a black box -- and that's 80 percent of U.S. transportation dollars.
September 11, 2012
Almost Every State Chooses to Retain Recreational Trails Funding
Since Congress passed a disappointing transportation bill in June, all eyes have been on the states, which were granted new leeway to forgo investments in safe walking and biking.
September 11, 2012