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StreetNEWS (July 14)

Submitted by Charlie Denison on Mon, 07/14/2008 - 9:07am.

Highlights
  • Editorial: Divided We Fall (South End News)
    If city engineers and a select task force of residents get their way, Massachusetts Avenue - which was just repaved a couple of years ago - will be torn up again next spring. After three years of reconstruction, we will end up with a wider street designed to carry more cars at higher speeds, a few cement planters at mid-block and narrower sidewalks paved in brick. The city and the task force say it is "a very good plan - the best we can get."  I am positive that this plan is not the best we can get.

  • The City of Boston Presents, Bike Fridays! (Boston Biker)
    The City of Boston is going to extend Bay State Bike Week all summer long. In this first of a kind event the city is going to be actually escorting people from all over the city to downtown. If you missed the very fun and very cool bay state bike week bike to work day you really should check this out.

  • City of Boston May Get Bike Share Program (Boston Biker, Universal Hub, Blue Mass Group)
    Paris has one, DC is getting one, could Boston be next! Lets hope so. This was just sent to me from City Councilor John Connolly:  "I am writing to let you know that I filed legislation yesterday to explore bringing a shared-bike program to Boston..."

  • Not-so-green acres (Boston Globe)
    BOSTON -- A group of women hurriedly crossed Milk Street on a recent afternoon, heading downtown from the waterfront, when one of them paused to look around. "Do you know where the Rose Kennedy Greenway is?" asked Nevart Kouyoumjian of Waltham. She was standing on it. The series of parks in the heart of the city, the grand payoff after years of Big Dig construction, traffic jams, and national ridicule, has yet to establish an identity in Bostonians' mental map.

  • To Slow Speeders, Philadelphia Tries Make-Believe (New York Times)
    PHILADELPHIA -- The first time Larry Morris spotted the white, blue and orange triangles that seemed to rise up from Blue Grass Road in his Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood, he was unsure just what they were. “It kind of surprised me,” said Mr. Morris, a retired machine shop welder, “but I slowed down when I went over it, and everyone behind me did too.” That is exactly what the City of Philadelphia and federal safety officials hope they will do.

  • With Gas Over $4, Cities Explore Whether It's Smart to Be Dense (Wall Street Journal)
    SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gasoline was less than $2 a gallon when Mike McKeever brought his gospel of bikes, light rail and tightly packed neighborhoods to this state synonymous with cars, freeways and suburban sprawl. "The development industry was very concerned," says Mr. McKeever, head of Sacramento's regional planning agency. "The environmental community was openly negative," concerned that it was "just more talk, talk."

  • Building a bicycle infrastructure (NBC News)
    With more Americans than ever before commuting to work by bicycle, cities from Boston to San Jose are aggressively investing in biking trails, lanes, and rental and parking facilities. NBC's Tom Costello reports.
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