Cyclonomics
Since the impact of bike lanes on businesses has emerged as a peripheral issue in the New York City mayoral race, as well as one City Council contest (and counting), a post today from the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia seems especially timely.
August 18, 2009
The Blame Game
Today on the Network, Ohio member blog Xing Columbus questions a recent article in The Columbus Dispatch
that attributes Franklin County pedestrian fatalities to carelessness
on the part of the victim. According to a Columbus police officer
interviewed in the story, local people killed by cars are usually
jaywalking or "just walking in the road" -- where "you might not see a
person until you’re right on top of them."
August 17, 2009
We Are the World
Fallout continues in the wake of last Friday's narrow passage of the
Waxman-Markey climate bill, otherwise known as the American Clean
Energy and Security Act, in the House of Representatives. Paul Krugman can't believe 212 reps voted against it, while Matthew Yglesias points to a conservative faction that has branded eight Republicans who helped pass it as "traitors."
June 30, 2009
The Opposite of Ad Nauseam: Farrah Fawcett on a Bike
It's been a tumultuous week in more ways than one. We're going to leave it behind with a flashback, via Cycelicious, to the late 1970s, when Farrah Fawcett pedaled to promote her own line of shampoo. What helmet could contain that hair?
June 26, 2009
If New Yorkers Don’t Value Transit, Who Will?
It’s the largest transit system in the United States, moving millions of people daily throughout New York City and beyond and serving as the lifeblood of one of the largest economies in the world. Unfortunately, writes Streetsblog Network member Benjamin Kabak on Second Avenue Sagas, those who depend on the MTA — and those whom … Continued
June 26, 2009
Everywhere a Sign
Today on the Streetsblog Network,
we ever-so-gingerly broach the issue of etiquette when pedestrians and
cyclists share the same space. Mayor Adrian Fenty has proclaimed
pedestrian safety as a top priority, and is backing up his words with
millions in federal stimulus funds and a pedestrian master plan. Adam
Voiland at DC Bicycle Transportation Examiner has also noticed a proliferation of signs instructing cyclists to dismount in pedestrianized areas.
June 25, 2009
Ad Nauseam: Antisocial Thuggery From Pioneer
What's more authentically American than boys suping up their rides and preening about town deafening all within earshot (reducing taxes, you say..)? The Speed Network series Hot Import Nights is the weekly sex-and-horsepower profile of the subculture, and as anyone who saw any of the Fast and the Furious movies in the Bay Area knows, selling these components to gear-heads is brisk business.
June 19, 2009
Is the Obama Administration Poised to Push Transit?
While President Barack Obama promoted wind power and cap-and-trade legislation, VP Joe Biden spent Earth Day talking up transit. Public radio's "The Takeaway" reports that Biden held a presser at a bus maintenance facility in Landover, Maryland, to tout a $300 million investment in hybrid buses and other municipal vehicles as part of the federal stimulus package. Said Biden:
April 24, 2009