Stadium Deals Drain Cities
We'll kick off 2010 with a post from Streetsblog Network member Hub and Spokes about the perils of subsidizing stadiums in the hope of getting a big economic return:
January 4, 2010
What Big Snow Can Tell Us About Our Streets
So the snow that hit the Northeast over the weekend is gradually sublimating and melting away, and a couple of the blogs on the Streetsblog Network are looking at the difference in the way municipalities treated pedestrians and motorists during and after the first big storm of the winter.
December 22, 2009
When “Safety” Only Means Safety for Automobiles
The process of building roads in this country is underpinned by
myriad assumptions and biases that favor automobiles. These biases are
nearly invisible to most citizens, even though they have a profound
effect on the built environment we all must move through every day.
December 21, 2009
Debate Over Parking in Missoula, Montana
Today from the Streetsblog Network, a report from Imagine No Cars
in Missoula, Montana, a city that is at a planning crossroads.
Missoulians can continue with the familiar strategy of more roads, more
parking, more space for cars -- or they can try to envision a different
future. The issue heated up recently when an update to Missoula's
parking meter system was debated in the city council:
December 18, 2009
NJ Editor Blames Anyone But Drivers for Pedestrian Deaths
Today on the Streetsblog Network, more windshield perspective from journalists, via WalkBike Jersey.
Andy B, the blog's author (and a frequent commenter on this site),
writes about an Atlantic City newspaper editor who has come up with a bizarre theory about who is responsible for the rising tide of pedestrian deaths in the Garden State.
December 17, 2009
Why Are Threats Against Bike Riders Considered Acceptable?
Today on the Streetsblog Network, Sustainable Savannah
asks the question, "When is it socially acceptable to threaten the
lives of innocent people?" The answer, apparently, is this: "When they
are riding bicycles."
December 16, 2009
The Case Against the “Empty Bus” Argument
Jarrett Walker at Human Transit provides useful ammunition in the battle of reasonable people against knee-jerk transit-bashers.
December 15, 2009
Finally, Some Good News for Philly Cyclists
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.
December 14, 2009
Moving Toward Bike Boulevards in Austin, Texas
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).
December 11, 2009
Orlando Kids Take Back the Streets — By Bike
"They want to ride to school. So they do."
December 10, 2009