complete streets
Complete Streets policy development workshop
Oct 17, 2012Join the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority (VTA) for an interactive training to satisfy MTC's Complete Streets requirement for the One Bay Area Grant (OBAG).
These workshops aim to provide guidance to local jurisdictions on developing local complete street policies. Highlights include:
Definition of Complete Streets Examples... read the whole note.Redwood City Farm Hill Boulevard open house
Sep 19, 2012You are invited to join Redwood City staff for one of two public open houses for the Farm Hill Boulevard Street Improvement Project.
Learn all about the meetings at http://bikesiliconvalley.org/2012/09/redwood-city-hosts-farm-hill-boulev....
Redwood City Farm Hill Boulevard open house
Sep 19, 2012You are invited to join Redwood City staff for one of two public open houses for the Farm Hill Boulevard Street Improvement Project.
Read all the details at http://bikesiliconvalley.org/2012/09/redwood-city-hosts-farm-hill-boulev....
Redwood City hosts Farm Hill Boulevard Project open house
Sep 19, 2012You are invited to join Redwood City staff for one of two public open houses for the Farm Hill Boulevard Street Improvement Project.
The City has taken input from the June community meeting and developed designs to improve conditions for people walking, biking, and driving on Farm Hill Boulevard.
Please come review the concepts and provide staff with feedback. Staff anticipates... read the whole note.
Bay Area Public Transportation Map
Jun 17, 2012Originally posted at http://interi.org/2012/06/bay-area-public-transportation-map/, by maiki, and licensed under CC-BY-SA. Comments are closed here, please discuss on the original post. ^_^
Here is a cool mapping project:
The Bay Area According to Public Transportation, by DylanofTilden. Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
It would be cool to see... read the whole note.
Grand Boulevard Initiative: Mountain View Walk the Talk forum
Apr 19, 2012Decades ago, a young city planner named Michael Freedman helped design a new vision for downtown Mountain View. Through his efforts, Castro Street went through a successful transformation with safer sidewalks and bustling cafes and street corners. Can we imagine the same thing happening to El Camino Real?
Click here to register for this event.
Join Greenbelt Alliance and partners... read the whole note.
New report sees safety benefits in bike paths
Feb 10, 2011Some cyclists are vehicular in nature - they want to be treated just like cars on the road. Others are fans of specialized bicycle infrastructure like bike lanes and cycletracks. Many of us employ a combination of these two views to get where we're going safely and quickly. Whatever your opinion on the subject, a new report in the Injury Prevention Journal provides some very... read the whole note.
Help for cities in these tough times - building bike lanes creates jobs
Jan 13, 2011Today U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood commented on his blog Fast Lane that "pedestrian and bicycle projects created nearly twice as many jobs per dollar spent than traditional road projects."
Secretary LaHood, who many bicycle advocates know from his famous table top speech at last year's National Bike Summit, reported that the city of Baltimore found that on-... read the whole note.
Portland is Rail~Volutionary
Oct 26, 2010Portland, also known as Stumptown, Rose City, Bridgetown and PDX, became "Railtown" for a brief moment last week, when the city hosted the 16th Annual Rail~Volution under sunny skies and warm temperatures. The event seeks to foster greater involvement by public transit agencies in creating livable communities and linking to bicycle, pedestrian, and street networks as well as increasing... read the whole note.
Redwood City Working Group moves ahead
Sep 28, 2010SVBC members and staff, as well as members of the community at large, held their first meeting as the Redwood City Working Group. SVBC has formed a working group to provide input on bicycle-related projects to Redwood City staff. The workgroup is being formed primarily due to financial difficulties in Redwood City which have delayed institution of their Complete Streets Commission, which would... read the whole note.