Posts tagged Bike Lanes
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Breakfast links: Neighborhoods change, or not
Georgetown retail changing; Progress and dysfunction in ANC 5B; Not my Ward 8; Georgia Ave won’t get funding; Urbanism for students; Council donations may be illegal; Post closing local bureaus; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Making the roads safer
College Park camera upheld; Biking getting safer; Not so deluxe; Car insurance limits too low?; Whither the streetcar?; Name that memorial; First woman driver, 111 years ago; Maryland may raise gas tax; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The value of bike lanes
Mixed-use and cycle track for Herndon; Fewer bike and pedestrian scofflaws; On bike lanes; Evans paying for sports tickets; Another round of campus plans; Clean up or close coal plant?; Fighting homelessness in Fairfax; And…. Keep reading…
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Guide to bikeway typology
As urban cycling becomes more common, new terms are entering the lexicon that people may not be completely familiar with. Here is a guide to the most common types of urban bikeways. There are seven basic types of bicycle travelways. In increasing order of separation quality, they are: Image from Google Street View.Mixed traffic Mixed traffic bikeways are simply regular… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Suburban traffic engineer follies
Fairfax proposes deathtrap at Wiehle; MCDOT speeds cars, makes area unsafe to walk; Arlington making Glebe safer; Tourmobile going, eventually; Wells hits deer; NYC bike lane survives lawsuit; Park ideas bloom; In mob news; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Deck party
OP wants to restore a L’Enfant avenue; Sidewalk cafes bloom downtown; Walter Reed charging forward; Metro counts bikes; SUVgate, Congressional edition; DC strikes oil in burgers; Discuss R Street bike lane, east of river Circulator; And…. Keep reading…
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Lithuania mayor tackles bike lane problem: Armored cavalry
Jamie included a brief link to this hilarious video this morning in the Breakfast Links, but several of you have submitted this to tips, so it’s probably worth running on its own. The mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania got so sick of luxury cars parking in the bicycle lanes that he Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Where can we live?
No place for homeless shelter; Wealthy but still segregated; Philly makes redistricting tool; Are intercity buses hurting Amtrak?; Possible makeover for L’Enfant Plaza; Future of Dream Act uncertain; Traffic enforcement on two wheels; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Law and Order
Commuter scofflaws get amnesty; We know so little about crime; Tourmobile contract invalid?; How to legalize urbanism; Bethesda ditches nostalgic buses; No brain drain at DDOT?; Is CaBi becoming a victim of its own success?; Bike lanes on Oregon Ave?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Harder to breathe
Nostalgic for Snowmageddon; Cycletracks cut the gender gap; New Metro features coming soon; Is gentrification all about displacement?; Flash mob protests Walmart; DC’s techies selective with neighborhoods; Virginia has a bastion of traditional family; Population mapped to the block; And…. Keep reading…