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StreetNEWS (October 6)

Submitted by Charlie Denison on Mon, 10/06/2008 - 4:17pm.


Mexico City ciclovia (Photo courtesy Los Angeles Times)

Highlights
  • Mass. Ave. Corridor Project (Arlington Advocate)
    The transformation of Massachusetts Avenue from a transportation corridor to one of Arlington’s great pedestrian-friendly streets is beginning. Join us to envision and plan the future. Hear more about what’s happening and tell us your ideas. Improvements will strive for a healthy balance between automobiles, bikes and pedestrians to create a truly livable pedestrian-friendly street where people feel safe and comfortable meeting, shopping and strolling, and a vehicular traffic system that is safe and efficient and easy to understand.

  • Rattling the cage (Boston Globe)
    By Linda Kush -- At Alewife Station on a gorgeous September morning, the railings along the walkways resembled giant charm bracelets with bicycles dangling from every link, and the bike racks were full. A commuter who arrives at the T station in Cambridge daily at 10 a.m. has watched the line of cycles along the rails and fences increase all summer at a rate of about 10 per day.

  • Silver Line Phase III presentation educates, causes outcry (South End News)
    MBTA officials, engineers, and others involved with the planning of Silver Line Phase III gathered on Sept. 24 to present information on construction methods and answer residents’ questions and address their concerns. The meeting was the first of several community presentations by the MBTA that aim to educate citizens on the more technical aspects of the project.

  • Contra-flow Bike lane - Boulder, CO (Streetfilms)
    Boulder, Colorado recently achieved the creme de la creme - Platinum bike status from the League of American Bicyclists so Streetfilms decided to pay the city a visit to get the scoop. Among the many bicycle amenities the city can boast, none spoke to us more than the contra-flow bicycle lane that runs three city blocks, connecting their popular Pearl Street pedestrian mall to a vital link of interconnected greenways. Streetfilms was impressed - and a little bit obsessed - by it.

  • U.S. driving drops for 9th straight month (Reuters)
    By John Crawley -- WASHINGTON -- Motorists on U.S. roads applied the brakes hard on driving when gasoline prices peaked over the summer at more than $4 per gallon, according to the latest government figures released on Tuesday. The 3.6 percent year-over-year decline in miles traveled on all roads in July cemented a downward trend begun nine months ago in response to rising pump prices and economic weakness.

  • Mobilien: Paris' Version of Bus Rapid Transit (Streetfilms)
    Le Mobilien is Paris' version of what we know as a bus rapid transit system or a surface mass transport network. Paris has been doing “bus rapid transit” for decades, and after years of on-street operation and continuous fine-tuning they have now developed a system which they call the “Mobilien” - French for MOBI-lity plus “LIEN” which means link.  Linking mobility. Unlike the BRTs that most US cities are looking at, the Mobilien adapts to different city contexts (i.e. street width and specific neighborhood dynamics).
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