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Moving Toward Bike Boulevards in Austin, Texas

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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). But as Austin on Two Wheels reports, it’s not always easy to convince property owners that these enhanced bike facilities (read more about them here) are the right thing for […]

Streetcars and Street Design

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This morning on the Streetsblog Network, Yonah Freemark at The Transport Politic talks about streetcar plans in Washington, D.C. Without better street design, he argues, the capital’s streetcars could end up mired in traffic:   (Photo: rocket ship via Flickr) I have documented some of the quotidian situations that will result in delayed traffic as a […]

Slowing Drivers in London

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Today on the Streetsblog Network, we’ve got some good news from Tom Vanderbilt’s How We Drive blog about lower speed limits coming to London. The borough of Islington will be radically expanding the number of streets with a speed limit of only 20 miles per hour. The goal is "a 10-year target of lowering traffic […]

Ohio Transit Riders Dumped by the Side of the Road

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Earlier this year, Lorain County, Ohio, purchased 13 new buses for its transit service using federal stimulus money. Come January 1, those buses are going to be sitting idle. Ride it while you can: bus service in Lorain County, Ohio (Photo: Morning Journal/Kelly Metz) The county will be canceling all transit service effective December 31, […]

T4A Calls for Smarter Jobs Policy

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In yesterday’s post about the Streetsblog Network‘s first birthday, I should have mentioned the crucial role that Transportation for America played in the network’s conception and inception. We couldn’t have done it without them. T4A’s vision of a national coalition of groups and individuals who can influence transportation policy at the federal level was key […]

Happy Birthday, Streetsblog Network

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One year ago today, we announced the launch of the Streetsblog Network — a national and international network of blogs covering transportation policy, sustainable planning, smart growth and active transportation. We conceived of the network as a way to get people who are passionate about these issues literally on the same page. We started with […]

Girls Try Bikes, Discover New Freedom

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The question of how to get more women on bikes has received quite a lot of attention recently, in part because of a recent article in Scientific American that suggested women are an "indicator species" for bike-friendly communities. A group of people in Darlington, United Kingdom, decided to approach the problem of getting women on […]

Lancet Study: We Must Reduce Auto Dependency

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Lots of catching up to do after the holiday weekend. Here’s a sampling of what’s been coming in over the network: Austin on Two Wheels threw a link up on Twitter to a very intriguing article published last week in the influential medical journal The Lancet (registration required). According to the Montréal Gazette, the researchers […]

Kids on Bikes Where You Live

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Here’s something to be thankful for over this holiday break: Kids on bicycles. A beautiful thing. We got so many submissions for this one, it was truly inspiring. [smooth=id:51;] Many thanks to all who contributed, including Sarah Gilbert at cafemama, rbairdpccam, baudman, Julian Davies of Totcycle, Barry Childress of Baltimore Spokes, Richard Masoner of Cyclelicious, […]
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