Posts tagged Bike Lanes
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New national design guide moves bike infrastructure forward
It didn’t grab headlines, but safer cycling infrastructure took a step forward recently with a new guide for cities and a helpful clarification from the Federal Highway Administration. Planners and engineers design any bike lane around standards. There are two existing guides out there. One for signs and markings: the Federal Highway Administration’s Manual… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Full of contradictions
VA wants cheap Dulles station; Robbery footage released; Manufactured bike lane opposition; Health impact of SE bike lane; Metro to lengthen some trains; Liberal NIMBYism in our back yard; NFL owners forget public financing; Landover Redskins?; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Friction over lanes
Gabe Klein busts illegal parkers; Real economists get bike lanes; NYC BRT “creeps” downward; John Galt had a high-speed train; Idaho and New Mexico Stop?; DC’s heliport may reopen; FTC HQ Mica’s only priority; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What’s on your Metro?
Are cloth seats wise or germ havens?; McDonnell finally backs Metro funding; Henderson getting the job; Gray calls for investigation of Gray; Questionable tactics against Oregon bag bill; Ga. driver assaults 13-year-old for asking him to put away a phone; Maybe transit advocates are being honest; And…. Keep reading…
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New York sees similar bike and communication debates as DC
New York City is 13 times the size of DC and its greater metro region 3½ times as big. Political fights there are also far larger, including ones over bicycle lanes and public spaces, as a New York Times profile on Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan details. It explains how Sadik-Khan has pushed forward with many innovative projects including closing parts… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fundamental rights
ACLU will sue over bag searches; Federal cost cutting hurts regional transit; Delaware gets more train service; what about Maryland; New Anacostia library an architectural success; Who’s running in Arlington; NYC rethinking rethinking 34th Street; And…; A roar on Arora. Keep reading…
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On the calendar: Biking west, retail/zoning north, buses east
There’s an important meeting about bike lanes on New Mexico Avenue tonight. Other upcoming meetings discuss retail on upper 14th Street, the Montgomery zoning rewrite, and buses east of the Anacostia River. Tonight, ANC 3D, which spans from American University to the Potomac River, will discuss several transportation and planning issues, including safety at Ward… Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: What are we paying for?
VDOT leases cheap spaces, builds expensive ones; Police search bags while mob attacks riders; Senators ask for Florida HSR money; Philanthropy in all the wrong places?; Community garden plots in demand and disrepair; DC’s arena might have gone to the suburbs; Driver mows down Critical Mass riders; “War” rhetoric over half a percent; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Unfortunate discoveries
When your landlord meets foreclosure; Culture of pilfering?; Near SE Whole Foods worth $8M?; Take a virtual bike tour of DC; Minimums inflate parking spaces; Glaeser v. planners?; What’s in Obama’s 2012 transportation budget; Unemployment down, oil imports up; And…. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Fascinating juxtapositions
Diffrent Democrats’ attitudes on bike lanes; Different councils’ reaction to Walmart; Urbanist-economic bloggers discuss tea party article; Refute traffic engineers, get investigated?; Roundabout works, residents admit; New Hampshire could limit student vote; ICC to Georgia opening soon. Keep reading…