Space Hogs Where You Live
It's time for another slide show from the Streetsblog Network. Last time, we asked you for images of bike traffic from around the country. You can see the result here.
October 16, 2009
Michigan Makes Roads Safe for Fuzzy Dice — Not Bikes
From Michigan's M-Bike.org, a story of misplaced priorities.
October 16, 2009
Make Smart Growth Affordable by Building More of It
Today on the Streetsblog Network, we're looking at a post from Kaid Benfield on NRDC Switchboard
about smart growth and how to make it more affordable. The answer, in a
nutshell, is to build more of it -- and the market tells us the demand
is there.
October 15, 2009
Marketing Bike Boulevards to Non-Bikers
Today from Biking in LA, some thoughts on how to sell the idea of bicycle boulevards to non-cycling homeowners:
October 14, 2009
“Bicycling Is Healthy” — So How Do We Encourage It?
Today, a bit of a Transatlantic love on the Streetsblog Network, as Copenhagenize posts about a new paper on how to increase bicycling rates from Rutgers urban planning prof John Pucher. Copenhagenize's Mikael Colville-Andersen writes:
October 13, 2009
Just Give Us a Place to Park Our Bikes
Anyone who regularly uses a bicycle for transportation in the United
States knows the feeling -- the nagging anxiety about what will happen
when you arrive at your destination, especially if it's a place you've
never been on your bike before. Will there be a place to lock up? Will
security guards be helpful or will they hassle you? Will your bike be
there when you get back? Or will it be gone -- not stolen by a common
thief, but clipped by the building management or by the police?
October 9, 2009
Click Here for More Livable Streets
A few exciting technology-related items have come over the transom in the past couple of days.
October 8, 2009
The Importance of Child Care Within Walking Distance
In honor of International Walk to School Day,
we're going to look at a post from Minnesota's Twin Cities about what
you might call Wouldn't It Be Great If You Could Walk Your Kid to
Preschool Day.
October 7, 2009
Your Eyes on Your Streets: Space Hogs
Our first user-generated slide show, on bike traffic, was a lot of fun. (See it here.)
This time out, we're looking for pictures that show cars -- the most
inefficient form of transportation -- hogging public space.
October 6, 2009
Back to the Land in Detroit?
The city of Detroit has gotten a lot of attention recently, most of it lamenting how far its fortunes have fallen. Time
magazine has even sent reporters to live in a Detroit neighborhood for
a year, covering it as if it were a foreign country -- which, in a
sense, it is. Foreign at least to the American self-image of infinite
growth and expansion.
October 6, 2009