Highlights
- Menino cycles through Mishap (Boston
Globe [1], NECN [2])
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 [3], Arlington
Advocate [4])
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 [5])
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 [6])
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 [7])
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 [8])
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.
- Green Guru, who led London's gridlock-fee plan, speaks at MIT (Boston Herald [9])
- Editorial: A nationwide oil change (Boston Metro [10])
- Public art meant to trigger interaction between Coolidge Corner, Dudley Square (Brookline TAB [11])
- In some city neighborhoods, air is unhealthy everyday (Somerville News [12])
- Salvucci solution: Cross bridge problem when you come to it (Boston Globe [13])
- Menino cycles through Mishap (Boston Globe [14], NECN [15])
- Pedal power [New Amsterdam Project] (WBUR [16])
- Bicycling skills classes offered in Arlington (Arlington Advocate [17])
- Take extra care to protect your bicycle from thieves (Boston Globe [18])
- Parked cars hog the road, bicycle riders complain (Boston Globe [19])
- More options for CharlieCard: Program to expand to commuter rail, ferry boats (Boston Globe [20])
- DA finds no sign of phone use in T crash (Boston Globe [21], Boston Herald [22])
- No criminal charges in fatal MBTA wreck (Boston Metro [23])
- Petition seeks to have Green Line extended to Route 16 (Somerville Journal [24])
- Urban Ring project is no urban legend (Boston Metro [25])
- Bus service to N.H.'s largest city from Boston to drop (Boston Herald [26])
- With $4 gasoline, commuters seek savings on public transit (Milford Daily News [27])
- Ditch the car, ride the rails (MetroWest Daily News [28])
- MBTA pumps up ad drive (Boston Herald [29])
- A fashionable proposal that may fit the T (Boston Globe [30])
- Demand for hybrids outpaces supply (Boston Globe [31])
- Disabled placard abusers targeted (Boston Globe [32])
- Teen drivers running on empty (Boston Globe [33])
- Bike trail finds its way to national fame (Boston Globe [34])
- Editorial: Linking trails and people (Boston Globe [35])
- [Franklin] Park neighbors look at transportation issues (Jamaica Plain Gazette [36])
- Strong hands for Greenway (Boston Globe [37])
- Taste of N.Y. on the Common? (Boston Globe [38], Boston Herald [39])
- Name that new town: Some say seaport; city calls in South Boston Waterfront (Boston Herald [40])
- Cohousing catching on in the Bay State (Boston Metro [41])
- Question of congestion: Forest Hills proposal would add traffic, but planners see a solution (Boston Globe [42], Jamaica Plain Gazette [43])
- Proposed zoning change would benefit Kaya hotel plan (Cambridge Chronicle [44])
- Harvard neighbors review community planning process (Allston-Brighton TAB [45])
- Residents advocate for new Brighton Mills plan (Allston-Brighton TAB [46])
- Somerville Community Corporation tries to sustain Union Square's affordable housing (Somerville News [47])
- Editorial: Eliminating Boston's other big blight (Boston Globe [48])
- BC to draw back curtains on student housing plan (Boston Globe [49])
- Park plans at their fingertips (Boston Globe [50])
- Hub DPW worker accused of arson (Boston Herald [51])
- Belmont rejects override for roads (Boston Globe [52])
- Big Dig clash cost $8.3m, audit says (Boston Globe [53])
- Editorial: A new approach for the age of $4 gasoline (Boston Globe [54])
- Editorial: Rebuilding bridges and public trust (Boston Globe [54])
- Father and son plead guilty in Big Dig fraud case (Boston Herald [55])
- A Mission to Make Suburbs, Well, More Like the City (New York Times [56])
- Routine NYC Approval of Parking Garages Is Symptom of Larger Blind Spot (Mobilizing the Region [57])
- No breaking away from Barack Obama's bicycle picture (Los Angeles Times [58], New York Times [59])
- NYC Bicyclists Get Their Own MapQuest (Streetsblog [60])
- A very moving speech by Robert Caro (The Overhead Wire [61])
- Convention project to push pedals (Rocky Mountain News [62])
- Bike Share on Governors Island (Streetfilms [63])
- At bike industry meeting, Obama pledges funding for cycling (Bike Portland [64])
- San Francisco Tests Dynamic Curbside Parking (WorldChanging [65])
- The Varying Impact of Gas Prices (New York Times [66])
- Jammed transit systems running on fumes (MSNBC [67])
- As oil rises, Americans rediscover the railroad (Yahoo! News [68])
- House overwhelmingly passes Amtrak funding bill (Yahoo! News [69])
- Cities testify: Streetcars work (Cincinnati Enquirer [70])
- The End of Cheap Oil as an Opportunity (WorldChanging [71])
- Bike-Sharing Gets Smart (TIME) [72]
- Can Mass Transit Rescue America (ABC News [73])
- Spanish High-Speed Rail: A model of transportation service (Mass Transit [74])
- The New, New City (New York Times [75])
- Man With A Plan: Questions for Enrique Penalosa (New York Times [76])
- Copenhagen, probably the best city in the world (The Independent [77])
- Manchester C-charge plans backed (BBC News [78])
- Lessons from London (Brookline Perspective [79])