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StreetNEWS (May 27)

Submitted by Charlie Denison on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 7:53am.

Highlights
  • Officials signal I-93 toll on table (Boston Globe, Allston-Brighton TAB, Boston Metro)
    Governor Deval Patrick's top transportation official signaled yesterday that he wants to take a closer look at adding tolls along Interstate 93, but stopped short of endorsing that method for raising money for the state's major roads and tunnels. It was the second time in three months that a Patrick administration official has indicated a willingness to look at charging tolls on the Southeast Expressway. In both cases, the administration put out a statement later in the day intended to tamp down the politically explosive issue.

  • Prescription for clogged traffic arteries planned (Jamaica Plain Gazette)
    If the congested roadways around the Forest Hills T station were veins and arteries feeding a human heart, the person whose blood it is pumping would be just a few short steps from the operating table. It would be high time to consider a diet heavy in fiber and light on cholesterol, and probably a new exercise regimen. That was the message delivered by Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA)-hired traffic consultants at the seventh meeting of the Forest Hills Improvement Initiative (FHII) April 30.

  • Roche: Getting help from T in East Somerville is 'like pulling teeth' (Somerville News)
    In the winter they don't shovel. And in the spring, they don't clean up. That, according to Ward One Alderman Bill Roche, is how the MBTA keeps up their property in East Somerville. “There is no cooperation,” he said of the MBTA's response to neighborhood complaints about how they maintain their property. “[Getting them to respond] is like pulling teeth.”

  • Put trolleys on track (Boston Herald)
    Mass transit around the country supposedly is reviving under the influence of high gasoline prices. Communities hoping to expand transit capacity can do so in efficient or inefficient ways. This is a plug for trackless trolleys, once ubiquitous but now rare.

  • Life with no car is no problem for New Hampshire family (Boston Globe)
    Main Street in Durham, N.H., is clogged. Cars idle in all directions. A string of stoplights results in a creeping backup. Motorists waiting with blinking left-turn signals seem doomed. A few hundred yards away from the jumble, a husband and wife load their 3-year-old son into a bike trailer. Securing their helmets and positioning their feet on pedals, they then cycle off toward the congested roadway.

  • PSU Prof shares results of bicycling behavior research (BikePortland)
    How does the the built environment influence bicycling behavior? What routes do cyclists take? Will cyclists go out of their way to use bike lanes and other bike-specific infrastructure?  Those are the questions Portland State University professor Jennifer Dill has set out to answer. Dill — who teaches at PSU’s Center for Transportation Studies — embarked on a bicycling behavior research study back in January and last week she began to share some of her initial findings.
"Streets"
Walking
Bicycling
Transit
Cars/Parking
Parks
  • Arborway 'Gateway' planning begins (Jamaica Plain Gazette)
  • Not enough child's play: A slice of the Emerald Necklace has been lovingly restored; now the young need to find it (Boston Globe)
Development projects
Transportation financing/Government
Green trends
Out-of-state
National trends
  • End of the road: Cul-de-sac: American dream or planning nightmare? (Northwest Arkansas Times)
  • National Bike To Work Day (StreetFilms)
  • The Case Against Flexibility (Planetizen)
  • Stranded in Suburbia (New York Times)
  • Consumers in the driver's seat: It's shifting consumer demand that will drive increases in vehicle fuel efficiency (Gristmill)
  • National Bike Bill update passes House committee; vote expected soon (BikePortland)
  • Video on the state of rail transit in the U.S. (NJ-ARP Blog)
  • House passes bill to sue OPEC over oil prices (Reuters)
  • APTA: One-third of summer travelers will use public transit (Progressive Railroading)
  • Gas prices accelerating scooter sales (Christian Science Monitor)
  • The Double and Triple Whammy -- Rising Fuel, Transit Reductions, and the Presidential Election (Planetizen)
International news

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