Cheers and jeers across America
Cheers…
- Barack Obama rode his bike for fun. Streetsblog LA writes, “it’s refreshing to see a nominee on two wheels who is neither A) biking in the woods, nor B) straddling an $8000 Serotta while clad in spandex.” (AP)
- A growing coalition is advocating for replacing New Haven’s Route 34 freeway with a boulevard. (Mobilizing the Region)
- Salt Lake City plans to significantly cut its parking requirements. They’re not getting rid of them, but it’s a start; some people are still complaining, of course. (SLC Tribune via Parking Today)
- Tulsa built an arena but decided it needed no new parking. (Of course, that’s because Tulsa already has gobs and gobs of it, but still.) (Parking Today)
- Even New York City blithely approves parking garages in the densest parts of Manhattan. (Mobilizing the Region)
- Los Angeles is still widening freeways. (North County Times via Streetsblog LA)
- Boston is paving over streetcar tracks. Is it still 1958 and I didn’t notice? (Switchback)