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More Cities to Join San Mateo County’s “Streets Alive” This Year

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 22, 2011 | 3 Comments

San Mateo County’s first Streets Alive event may have had bad luck with the weather last April, but many Peninsula cities are eager to get another shot at celebrating car-free streets with an even bigger event in 2011. “Even though it was rained out, it was pretty popular with residents,” said Eric Pawlowsky, an aide to San […]

Cyclist Outcry Forces Delay on GG Bridge Speed Limit Vote

By Tom Murphy | Apr 21, 2011 | 32 Comments

Golden Gate Bridge directors today tabled their staff’s surprise proposal for a 10 mph speed limit for bicycles after outraged cycling advocates denounced the plan as everything from a “half-baked idea” to a “solution in search of a problem.” The bridge’s Building and Operating Committee received more than 60 complaints prior to the hearing, then […]

Peru’s Traffic Menagerie

By Chris Carlsson | Mar 28, 2011 | 1 Comment

Our daily urban lives shape our imaginations in so many ways. Few things box us in like our everyday transit options, and the patterns of traffic that shape our sense of public space. These patterns themselves are historical of course. A quick look back at the famous Market Street film shot a few days before […]

Houston Advocates Rally to Save Bike-Ped Funds From Motorhead Bureaucrats

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 24, 2011 | No Comments

Nobody would accuse the Houston region of lacking auto infrastructure. Now local bicycling and pedestrian advocates are fighting to protect their tiny slice of the pie. They’re anxiously awaiting a final decision tomorrow about a pro-road money grab by the Houston-Galveston Area’s Transportation Policy Council. The Council has zeroed in on an $80 million chunk […]

San Mateo County Slow to Improve Conditions for Bicyclists and Pedestrians

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 21, 2011 | 14 Comments

The wheels are turning slowly in the movement to improve biking and walking conditions in San Mateo County as a lack of cohesive political will leaves little traction for any real changes. A new plan drafted by the Peninsula’s twenty sprawling cities is bringing some overdue attention to the need for safer streets, but critics say […]

Ecology of Biking in Quito, Ecuador

By Chris Carlsson | Mar 7, 2011 | 6 Comments

I just spent a few days in Quito, Ecuador, a remarkably beautiful city of a couple million sprawling 40 kilometers north-to-south through a series of valleys and plateaus in the Andes, surrounded by snow-capped volcanoes and rugged green mountains. I interviewed Heleana Zambonino from Quito for Streetsblog a while back, and wanted to see for […]

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