Posts Tagged ‘Streetsblog’

Not to be outdone by yesterday’s announcement about a potentially carfree Market Street in San Francisco, today’s Wall Street Journal reports that Times Square in New York City(!) will be going sans car as well.
In May, the city plans to close Broadway to vehicles between 47th and 42nd streets. The mall will feature cafe tables [...]

San Francisco’s board of supervisors are seriously considering making Market Street nearly a completely pedestrian and cyclist-focused street. This would be roughly equivalent to us making Congress between the river and the capitol building carfree, or Guadalupe between MLK and 30th or so.
Quoting today’s story in the San Francisco Chronicle:
“Having been a [...]

“New mobility aims towards a human system. Old mobility aims at a car system.” Eric Britton, New Mobility Agenda
Streetsblog posted a great video at the end of last week that covers many of the innovative things being done in Paris (France, not Texas) to make streets safer and more accessible to cyclists and pedestrians alike.
The City [...]

Yesterday, Marcus wrote about the plan the City of Austin has to replace all the meters downtown with electronic kiosks and how this will eliminate thousands of de facto bike parking racks.
This story was picked up today by Streetsblogs, a transportation network we are a part of, with this picture below where meter posts were [...]

As an addition to our coverage of possibilities for Obama’s Secretary of Transporation, I want to add that this Streetsblog post about the Obama-Biden transition team naming their Agency Review Team for transportation. Might there be some hints in these names? Perhaps…

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