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StreetNEWS (June 15)

Submitted by Charlie Denison on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 9:27am.

Highlights
  • Menino cycles through Mishap (Boston Globe, NECN)
    It's bad enough to hit a bicyclist on your way to work, but what if it's the mayor? That scenario unfolded for an unidentified commuter late last month: A woman driving to work realized she had struck Mayor Thomas M. Menino while on his morning bike ride, the mayor's office confirmed yesterday. Although the mayor did not publicize it, the incident does seem to support one of his pet causes, that the city needs to be more bike-friendly.

  • Petition seeks to have Green Line extended to Route 16 (Somerville Journal, Arlington Advocate)
    There’s support out there to extend the Green Line all the way from Boston to Route 16 in Medford. And there’s a group out there ready to prove that. The petition is being sponsored by the Medford Green Line Neighborhood Alliance (MGNA), which hopes to show the Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation (EOT) that ending the line at Route 16 is a viable option that the community supports.

  • Urban Ring project is no urban legend (Boston Metro)
    State transportation officials have unveiled their vision for Phase II of the ambitious Urban Ring project that would create rapid transit MBTA bus service they hope will connect neighboring communities, lower commute times and link with the T’s existing system.

  • San Francisco Tests Dynamic Curbside Parking (WorldChanging)
    Congestion pricing failed to gain approval in New York, but other cities are quietly pushing forward with plans to bring innovation to a more prosaic but no less important part of the transportation puzzle: parking. The struggle to find a good parking space in a city is so commonplace as to have become a cliché. But really what it represents is a market failure. Parking spots, like roads, are an odd sort of beast: the supply is fixed, but the demand fluctuates greatly by day and by hour.

  • Editorial: A nationwide oil change (Boston Metro)
    With gas prices headed toward $5 a gallon, more than half the population has, in a matter of a year, become marooned in the suburbs. The economics of housing combined with the lunacies of city planning have left most Americans stranded, miles away from their places of work, schools, stores and medical facilities.

  • As oil rises, Americans rediscover the railroad (Yahoo! News)
    As oil prices spike, many Americans are rediscovering the railroad. Amtrak, America's struggling passenger railroad, saw record numbers in May when ridership rose 12.3 percent from a year earlier, and ticket sales climbed 15.6 percent, according to company data.
"Streets"
  • Green Guru, who led London's gridlock-fee plan, speaks at MIT (Boston Herald)
  • Editorial: A nationwide oil change (Boston Metro)
  • Public art meant to trigger interaction between Coolidge Corner, Dudley Square (Brookline TAB)
  • In some city neighborhoods, air is unhealthy everyday (Somerville News)
  • Salvucci solution: Cross bridge problem when you come to it (Boston Globe)
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Cars/Parking
Parks
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Transportation financing/Government
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