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StreetNEWS (July 28)

Submitted by Charlie Denison on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 11:36am.


Market Street, San Francisco (Photo courtesy San Francisco Chronicle)

Highlights
  • Pump It Up (Commonwealth Magazine)
    The Bay State's debt-ridden transportation agencies preside over networks that are literally falling apart. New gas tax revenues may be the only way out.
    FOR A PICTURE-PERFECT view of the Boston skyline on a bright, cloudless day, looking from the Longfellow Bridge to the other side of the Charles River is as good as it gets. For scenery of a different sort, amble down the stairway near Storrow Drive and walk underneath the span that links Beacon Hill to Kendall Square. Take a look at the severely corroded steel supports and the black netting affixed to catch pieces of crumbling sidewalk. Not exactly Kodak moments.

  • Seeing the forest and the trees (Commonwealth Magazine)
    Urban greenery can bring better health, more attractive neighborhoods, and even safer streets
    SEEN FROM A satellite high above, 29 percent of the city of Boston is hidden under the leafy canopy of trees during the summer months. That’s more shade than exists in many other cities, but it’s not enough. As scientists and social planners are discovering, trees are far more than mere ornaments to the urban landscape. The urban forest is a powerful force for social and environmental change. Trees reduce air and water pollution, save energy, increase property values, and improve the social networks that are the backbone of a healthy city.

  • Cycle Mania! [Features Boston, Somerville, Cambridge and others] (CBS Sunday Morning)
    "Pedal Power" is coming into its own these days, as Americans of all ages are coming to realize biking can be practical, economical, and good clean fun - or should we say, good GREEN fun? Our Cover Story takes us from California to Cambridge, and is reported by Serena Altschul.
    Related: Re-cycling effort (Boston Globe)

  • Making Cities More Walkable (NPR)
    While gas-thirsty cars are languishing in the garage, people are hopping on buses, riding bikes, and reverting to the most time-tested form of transportation: their feet. Alex Chadwick talks to Christopher Leinberger, visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, about why urban planners are paying more attention to cities' "walkability."

  • Plan to ban cars on part of Market St. (San Francisco Chronicle)
    SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco's Market Street from the Embarcadero to Hayes Valley would permanently close to all traffic except for city mass transit vehicles under a proposal announced at City Hall on Tuesday night. Supervisor Chris Daly asked the city attorney to draft legislation to permanently ban cars on Market Street between Octavia Boulevard and the Embarcadero, an idea that has been floated by various city leaders, including former Mayor Willie Brown, for more than a decade.

  • Plan for Grand Street Cycle Track Features New Design Treatment (Streetsblog)
    DOT has unveiled plans for a Grand Street cycle track that bear the fingerprints of Danish planner Jan Gehl. It would be Manhattan's first cross-town protected bike path. Grand Street is narrower than Ninth Avenue, where the existing protected path runs. Whereas the Ninth Avenue cycle track uses signal timing to prevent conflicts between bikes and turning vehicles, the Grand Street plan uses what DOT is calling a "mixing zone," a space shared by cyclists and drivers at the approach to an intersection.
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  • Electronic Road Pricing in Singapore Reduces Traffic Congestion (Chasing Clean Air)
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