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Finally, Parking Meters Where Bikes Belong

By Damien Newton | Apr 9, 2008 | 1 Comment

Sacramento sends cyclists a clear sign that it’s okay to hitch your bike to a parking meter. The City of Sacramento is converting defunct parking meters into officially sanctioned bike racks, the Sacramento Bee reported last month. After replacing its traditional meters with solar-powered, Muni-style pay stations, the city came up with this nifty purpose […]

Ad Nauseam: State Farm and the Humiliation of Biking to Work

By Damien Newton | Apr 3, 2008 | 11 Comments

Drop what you’re doing, click the "play" button and enjoy 30 seconds of outstanding car culture courtesy of State Farm. The Scene: An African American actor with a shaved head, conservative gray suit and slightly stiff demeanor asks, "Where can you find me? At the intersection of gas prices can not get any higher and […]

Eyes on the Street: Portland Bike Boxes

By Damien Newton | Mar 26, 2008 | 3 Comments

Not only are Portland, Oregon’s new bike boxes to be accompanied by a motorist safety campaign, they’re also making them hard for drivers to miss at street level. Note the "Get Behind It" sign to the right. Compare the Portland version to a New York bike box: Could this be the model for bike safety […]

America to the Automobile: “It’s Over”

By Damien Newton | Mar 21, 2008 | No Comments

In honor of this year’s New York International Auto Show, which officially begins today, we present this very special announcement: Ms. America to Announce “The End of the Affair” at the NY Auto Show **Saturday, March 22**10:30 a.m.Jacob Javits Center After 100 years, Lady Liberty, the perennial Ms. America, is finally ending her“spectacularly combustible […]

StreetFilm: Traffic Calming Done Right in Melbourne

By Damien Newton | Mar 18, 2008 | 2 Comments

Clarence Eckerson files this report (and StreetFilm) from Melbourne, Australia: This city really is wonderful. Art, happiness, liveliness, and good walkingeverywhere (between daily runs and walking I am averaging about 10 milesper day). The incredible thing is the TRAFFIC CALMING. Unless you are on areal highway no matter where you go there is […]

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 […]

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