Posts tagged Chicago
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Breakfast links: Keep the blood flowing
Sign up for Bikestation; A little less Circulation; Corner stores now healthier; Rail guns; Ethics time; Reality vs. formula for rail lines; Performance parking at the beach; Rolling back parking enforcement. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Alphabet soup and libertarians
Walk and Roll for smoothies; Soft on sidewalks?; CTA goes open; AAA OK: Bikes are OK; Hawkins to lead WASA; Let the market decide except in parking?; Houston does have zoning. Keep reading…
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Chicago trains officers on cycling laws
The Chicago police created a great video describing the rights and responsibilities of bicyclists. In many cities, officers not familiar with the laws often incorrectly ticket bicyclists when drivers turn across their path unsafely, hit them with doors, or pass too close. After crashes, police reports too often unfairly blame the cyclist, or officers resist taking a police report… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Highway robbery
MPD would rather white people didn’t file police reports in Trinidad?; Stop the Sprawlway; Moran: Widen 14th Street; Developers not interested in Purple Line, except those that are; DC can complete Georgia Avenue; Not even safe on the sidewalk in Glen Burnie; Be glad you don’t live in the OC; Chicago parking deal illegal or just bad?. Keep reading…
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Google paid for NYC data (or not); Chicago removed indemnification
New York’s MTA, a much larger agency than WMATA, apparently was able to negotiate some kind of payment from Google in exchange for providing its transit data for Google Transit Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Decongesting our politics and our roads
Barry back in the news; We’re still riding, still need Metro; Bus locations copyright NextBus?; Chicago parked itself into a corner; It’s working for Philly; Paging Jim Graham; Paging Barbara Mikulski; Just National?. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Train stations and stationary trains
A grand station and community in New Carrollton?; Riders still confident in Metro; Not just a “situation” or “disruption”; Google Transit in Fairfax; DC budget crisis, again; Suburban living not inherently better, thanks. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Old news and new news
More bikes on and around trains; Screen not on the Green; Mies box or transit stop?; Few MoCo employees using car-sharing, yet; Press article uses active verb for crash!; Bus stop answers. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: SmarTrip, the environment, Japan, and more
SmarTrip Web reload, autoload coming; Metro MasterCard: priceless?; Chicago real-time bus info spurs app competition; Environmentalist except in your backyard; Break out the white paint; Japan’s roads to nowhere; Streets are different in Japan, too; Lewis, Kojo talk big box reuse; Navarro probably wins District 4; Arts event for city’s elite excludes emerging arts. Keep reading…
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Transit mashups & me on Kojo tomorrow
Tomorrow at noon, I’ll be on the Kojo Nnamdi show’s “Tech Tuesday” to talk about transit mashups like Google Transit and other innovative ways government agencies are improving public access to information by letting private companies and individual “garage developers” innovate in ways we couldn’t imagine in advance. Keep reading…