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DC to Devote Parking Fees to Livable Streets

By Damien Newton | Mar 14, 2008 | No Comments

In a first for a big east coast city, Washington, DC, is putting the ideas of celebrated parking reformer Don Shoup to work. Spurred by concerns over game day traffic surges caused by the opening of a new baseball stadium, the city council recently created two performance parking pilot project zones. The most important […]

In Istanbul, a Burgeoning Livable Streets Movement

By Damien Newton | Mar 13, 2008 | No Comments

StreetFilms’ Elizabeth Press traveled to Istanbul, Turkey recently, and put together this vid of horrendous traffic conditions and initiatives to take back the streets. Featured in the film is Kevser Üstündag, professor of architecture and World Carfree Network advisor, who discusses transit and car-free Sundays. At 1:40, check out Istiklal Caddesi, an avenue that […]

London’s Very Cool “Look Out for Cyclists” Ad

By Damien Newton | Mar 13, 2008 | 2 Comments

Watch out LADOT and your Watch the Road Campaign. Here comes Transport for London with a new bike safety advert called, Do the Test. Have you done it yet? You’ll spend the first minute or so having absolutely no idea what any of it has to do with traffic safety or cycling. But stick with it. It’s […]

Traffic Jam on a Petri Dish

By Damien Newton | Mar 11, 2008 | 1 Comment

This one comes to Streetsblog via the Sightline Institute’s Daily Score, a blog covering environmental issues in the Pacific Northwest. Why do traffic jams materialize for no apparent reason? In an effort to answer that question, here’s a surprisingly simple experiment cooked up in Japan by the University of Nagoya’s "Mathematical Society of Traffic Flow:" […]

Bike-Share Update: DC First Out of the Gate

By Damien Newton | Mar 10, 2008 | No Comments

On Wednesday Streetsblog declared Portland the leader in the race to launch a public bike-share program here in America. But as reader Chris Loos pointed out, a bike-share system in Washington is actually imminent. "DC SmartBike" will launch as a pilot program in the coming weeks with 120 bikes at 10 stations, available for an […]

All Eyes on Portland at Bike Summit

By Damien Newton | Mar 7, 2008 | 2 Comments

An organized ride on one of Portland’s bike boulevards. If there was a star at yesterday’s National Bike Summit, it was Portland, Oregon. After Earl Blumenauer, one of the city’s congressional reps and a former county commissioner, delivered the morning address, Portland’s bike planners and advocates shared their strategies at some of the more urban-focused […]

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