Broken Sidewalk

Transit usage grew 4% last year, vehicle miles declined 3.6% (Business First) Cincinnati couple's wedding-gift-register funds streetcar project (C-E via Overhead Wire) Portland to spend part of stimulus money on 'bike garages' (the transport politic) Sweden phasing out fossil-fuel burning cars by...

Transportation Issues Gill Holland gets some common transportation sense printed in the C-J (Ville-Voice) Transit ridership hit 52-year high in 2008 (NY Times) Videos of five train lines in Tokyo, Japan (TreeHugger) But we don't need trains, just fancy cars with wi-fi (the...

Raining on the High-Speed Rail parade: people like cars, planes (Boston Globe via Planetizen) Kentucky studied an I-64 & I-71 High Speed Rail corridor 10 years ago (Lex Streetsweeper) Urban traffic congestion declined 30% in 2008 (CEOs for Cities) Can GM survive even...

See that jagged line in the concrete sidewalk above? That's some interesting evidence of the evolution of the sidewalk. Evidently, the sidewalk was once composed of those hexagonal concrete tiles you see on St. James Court and throughout Old...

Ideas for fixing transit agency funding (the transport politic) More articles and thoughts surrounding High Speed Rail (Urbanophile) Legislation to place tolls on bridges may advance (C-J) Historic Phoenix Hill considering 'preservation light' (C-J) New high-tech jobs headed for Newburg neighborhood (Metro Lou) AAA...

This little device would make bike rides more visible (TreeHugger) Stimulus funding loses bold vision, now a 'patchwork' or local projects (NY Times) Auto sales down again up to 50% from a year ago (NY Times) Lou. may yet make it to...

Transportation Issues Semi-driver hits cars in emergency lane, drags man 200 feet (N & T) Pedestrian/bike safety 'One Road'  HB 88 sure would have been nice (FatLip) Portland's (OR) new downtown trains greeted 'like rock stars' (Oregonian via Overhead Wire) Tips for becoming...

70 year old cross-guard killed by motorist in crosswalk at middle school (C-J) While she was trying to help a child cross the street (Fox 41) And no charges filed against the driver (WHAS 11) And bike/pedestrian safety HB 88 'is dead...

Bike advocacy meeting planned for March 5 (crankedmag) Tough times in Frankfort for bike safety legislation (Barry's Bike Blog) What High Speed Rail projects might compete for stimulus funding? (Transport Politic) Everyone is talking about High Speed Rail nowadays (Philly Inquirer via...