Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Out of Town

Guillermo Penalosa Tries to Bring Bogota Style Planning the U.S.

By Damien Newton | Dec 17, 2008 | No Comments

via Salon’s How the World Works If you have seven minutes of free time, you should check out this video above. If not, make time. Recently, Guillermo Penalosa, the former Commissioner of Parks, Sports and Recreation for the city of Bogotá, spoke at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club about the changes that have gone on in […]

San Diego Activists Incensed Over Removal of Ghost Bike

By Damien Newton | Nov 24, 2008 | 1 Comment

"Atip’s" Friends and Family Gather Around His Ghost Bike Last July Last July, the San Diego bicycle community suffered a serious blow when one of it’s better known and well liked leaders was killed in a collision with a motorist. Friends and family erected a memorial at the site of the crash, a white painted […]

Two Oil Guzzling Albatrosses for the Price of One?

By Ben Fried | Nov 24, 2008 | No Comments

Detroit’s customer incentives have had an air of desperation for a while. With Big Three bankruptcy looking more likely every day, some dealers — like this one in Pembroke Pines, Florida — are venturing into liquidation sale territory (and then some). You read that right: Two Dodge Rams for the price of one. Tow the […]

Rave Review for Cleveland’s BRT Debut

By Ben Fried | Nov 13, 2008 | No Comments

Cleveland bus riders at one of the Health Line’s new stations. Cleveland’s first venture into Bus Rapid Transit — a 10-mile route called the Health Line — was turning heads before it fully launched, attracting planners from other cities looking to boost transit ridership. Now that the ribbons have been cut, the Plain Dealer’s Steven […]

Transit Blamed for Suburban St. Louis Crime

By Brad Aaron | Oct 30, 2008 | 3 Comments

Last week Freakonomics picked up a story from the Riverfront Times that connects an uptick in shoplifting, fighting and other crimes in the St. Louis suburbs to a two-year-old expansion of the city’s MetroLink rail system. Ask virtually any store manager at the Saint Louis Galleria about shoplifting, and you’ll invariably get two responses: One, […]

Report From Boulder, CO: A City That “Gets It”

By Brad Aaron | Oct 6, 2008 | No Comments

Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson, Jr. just returned from Boulder, Colorado — recent recipient of the League of American Bicyclists’ Platinum award for bike-friendliness. He writes: Boulder "gets it" big time — bicycling is important to its residents. So is a healthy walking and green living environment. But please note: this is not a car-free utopia — […]

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