The Importance of Family-Friendly Transit
As someone who is raising a child without a car in a transit-rich
city, I sometimes need to be reminded that for many people in the
United States, the reality of maintaining a family life without a
personal motor vehicle is impractical -- or simply unthinkable, for a
variety of reasons. This often holds true even if they live in a city
with relatively good transit.
March 3, 2010
“We Need to Stop Designing Our Lives Around Cars”
Streetsblog Network member Boston Biker has picked up the most recent Streetfilms release, Fixing the Great Mistake: Autocentric Development, and written an eloquent post about the necessity of moving away from car-centered planning.
March 2, 2010
Vancouver’s Olympic Transit Demonstration
The Vancouver Olympics may be over, but Jarrett Walker at Human Transit writes that the legacy for public transportation in that city could be a lasting one. During the games, the city moved nearly 1.7 million people per day on its transit system. Walker sees it as a sort of Olympic exhibition of what the future could hold:
March 1, 2010
Mayor of Fort Worth: Autocentric Design “A Mistake”
The theme of today's post from the Streetsblog Network is mayors who talk sense. First, at Fort Worthology, Kevin Buchanan files a report on what Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief had to say in his State of the City address:
February 26, 2010
Kucinich Brings the Innerbelt Crossing Fight to DC
Today from Streetsblog Network member GreenCityBlueLake,
an update on the push to include bicycle and pedestrian facilities on a
reconstructed Innerbelt Bridge over the Cuyahoga River -- an
accommodation that the Ohio DOT has been resisting. In the latest
development, Rep. Dennis Kucinich has stepped up his involvement. From
GCBL:
February 25, 2010
Parking Requirements Bringing Indianapolis Down
There's a lot going on around the Streetsblog Network today. From A Place of Sense,
in Indianapolis, comes a post about that city's parking policies. A
developer there, seeking to renovate an abandoned apartment building in
an area with many parking lots, requested a variance from the city's
requirement that developments provide their own off-street parking. The
request was denied, and the building will remain vacant for the
foreseeable future.
February 24, 2010
Montana Bicycle Blogger Terrorized by Drunk Driver
One of our Streetsblog Network
member bloggers had a terrifying encounter with a pickup truck full of
drunken men the other night. The author of the blog Imagine No Cars wrote of being chased through the streets of Missoula, Montana, in fear for his life:
February 23, 2010
“A Bicycle Is Not a Transportation Device”
Did you commute by bike this morning? (I'm not at the office yet
today, but that's how I'm going to get there.) If so, you might be
surprised to hear that "a bicycle is not a transportation device."
Those are the perplexing words of John Cook, a supervisor in Fairfax
County, Virginia.
February 22, 2010
The Urban Destruction Caused by Parking
Today on the Streetsblog Network, we're thinking about parking, thanks to a post from The Overhead Wire on the devastating effect that parking structures and highways can have on a city's infrastructure:
February 19, 2010
Rounding Up More TIGER Coverage
The Streetsblog Network has been abuzz over the last 24 hours about the TIGER grants that were announced yesterday by the US DOT. Elana had some great roundups on this site yesterday about winners and losers in the highly competitive process.
February 18, 2010