complete streets / road diets
Columbus, OH passes complete streets resolution
COLUMBUS, OH - City of Columbus Council member Mary Ellen O'Shaughnessy was successful in passing a resolution in support of Complete Streets.
The resolution was approved unanimously by the city council and signed by mayor Michael Coleman in Columbus, Ohio on July 29. Read more >
AARP Complete Streets Poll
AARP Poll: Fighting Gas Prices, Nearly A Third of Americans Age 50+ Hang Up Their Keys To Walk But Find Streets Inhospitable, Public Transportation Inaccessible Read more >
Saint Paul, Edina join first group of "Carbon Disclosure" cities
Saint Paul and Edina are on the list of the first 21 cities joining the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a UK group seeking to help cities limit their carbon footprints, according to this Yahoo news piece.
The two cities will start measuring and reporting their emissions, to keep track of them on at a local and global level, and to help chart ways of lessening their impact. Transportation emissions and urban design choices figure to be a big part of reducing each city's greenhouse gas footprint.
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Mural painting marathon event on Lyndale Avenue going on now!
This is an email from a friend of mine who is invovled with the Walldogs on Nicollet mural painting project going on today and tomorrow:
Friends,
I wanted to send an invite to all of you come down to the Lyndale/Kingfield neighborhoods this week for the Walldogs on Nicollet. It's a project that Lyndale/Kingfield Neighborhood Associations' have been working on for the last 18 months. The project's purpose is to use the creation of public art to build community, capture/preserve/initiate neighborhood history, spur economic development and create a safer environment along the Nicollet Avenue Corridor from Lake Street to 46th Street in South Minneapolis. The Walldogs on Nicollet meet will be the first urban Walldog meet and one of the largest creations of public art in Minneapolis' history. Read more >
PiPress: Parking is Sticking Point for Central Corridor
Parking seems to be the major sticking point over Central Corridor design planning, according to a piece in today's Pioneer Press. Read more >
Complete Streets: We Can Get There from Here
From the May 2008 issue of the ITE Journal. Includes explanation of the "complete streets" movement and explores ways to make urban thoroughfares more pedestrian and bicycle friendly, while respecting community context and not compromising automobile travel.
Techniques for designing an arterial street that can control traffic speeds and permit more comfortable and safe pedestrian and bicycle access are described. Read more >
ITE and CNU: Designing better streets in urban areas
Guidelines from the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) on how to design streets in urban areas to improve walkability.
Design guidelines are attached, and link to online resources from ITE is also included. Read more >
KARE11: Bicyclists and pedestrians get equal footing on new 'Bike Walk' streets
KARE11 story on a new two mile "Bike Walk Boulevard" in Richfield. Includes link to online story and video. Read more >
USA Today: Drivers cut back by 30B miles
Americans drove 22 billion fewer miles from November through April than during the same period in 2006-07, the biggest such drop since the Iranian revolution led to gasoline supply shortages in 1979-80.
The numbers released Wednesday may reflect more than a temporary attitude change in consumers toward high gas prices, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said. Previously, she said, "people might change their pattern for a short period of time, but it almost always bounced back very quickly. We're not seeing that now." Read more >
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