Month: March 2013

Tony Dutzik is senior policy analyst with Frontier Group, a non-profit public policy think tank.

B-cycle memberships are about to get a lot more portable.

If you've been on a U.S. street anytime in the past few years, it comes as no surprise to hear that way too many Americans are yammering away on their cell phones -- or worse, OMG'ing and LOL'ing with their friends on text and email -- while driving. A new report from the CDC -- from their "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" -- shows just how bad the American habit is.

Adonia Lugo is a co-founder of the Ciudad de Luces/City of Lights bike outreach project in Los Angeles and currently an anthropology doctoral student in Seattle. Today on her blog Urban Adonia, she reflects on the difference between a policy-based approach to bike advocacy, as displayed at the recent National Bike Summit, and her work to transform cultural attitudes about cycling:

More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill

With flyers stuck on storefront windows along Polk Street spreading misinformation about the SF Municipal Transportation Agency's developing plans to make the street a safer, more inviting place to walk and bike, local supporters of the project are rallying neighbors and merchants to attend a public meeting on Monday. There, city officials including SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin and D3 Supervisor David Chiu are expected to attend.

How would you make the case to Congress to fund bike infrastructure? That was the question Streetfilms posed to attendees at this year's National Bike Summit. Here's a look at what they told us.

These days, almost every mid-sized city has an entertainment district. Depending on your nature, these are the places you either flock to on Friday and Saturday nights or assiduously avoid. These are also often the best places to get a gyro at 2 a.m.

Driver Critically Injures Man on San Jose Ave. in Outer Mission (SF Examiner) Sup. Wiener to Present Local CEQA Reform Measures at Planning Commission (SFGate) Vinyl Seat Contractor Backs Out of Project With BART, Stalling Replacements (SF Examiner) Bayview’s Sidewalk Parking Crackdown Continues (People Behaving Badly) Santa Cruz Metro Adds 11 New Weekday Runs On … Continued