We should all get behind the idea of ‘Open Government‘.
I thought of this when I read this article. Some of the dudes from EveryBlock are bikers and reporters and advocates for open government data and better bike facilities and better reporting and all sorts of stuff.
And it is really just the larger picture of getting [...]
Yes.
Ride across the Potomac on the Yellow Line:
Or it might be a full-on ‘Tour Train’:
On a semi-related note, there is a whole series of ‘Metro In A Day’ videos for the major DC metro lines. Here’s one for the red green line:
Bus travel will rarely, if ever, be uplifting. Riding your bike is almost [...]
KTVU has it here.
It’s hard to see what’s going on. Forward to about 2:50 and hear a cop pull the trigger at about 2:55. Then see the victim laying limp on the ground, on his stomach. The victim is in the front part of the screen, to the left, not one of the guys all [...]
We mentioned that London was set to get rid of those monster buses, but I thought I’d push out one more piece of data on that matter:
Bendy buses cause more than twice as many injuries as any other bus, according to official figures seen by the Standard.
More than 90 pedestrians and cyclists were injured by [...]
It’s a great idea, of course - and we should do the same here in San Francisco. If both towns had bike-sharing programs, city employees could ride bikes for free while on duty.
That would be teh awesome!
…Adding, this is something the new DC Transportation guy (if confirmed) can work on. Problem is, ZipCar doesn’t offer [...]
I don’t know how long we waited on Market before we finally caught a 71 headed south - 30 minutes? [We were supposed to be waiting on a 6.] It was odd. There were buses headed north, toward the Ferry Building, but nothing southbound. And the F was a bus. There were lots of cabs. [...]
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. You know, what would be good to get more people on public transit?
And then I thought, well, it’s probably not a good idea to execute people who ride BART. But, that’s exactly what a BART cop did.
At least us cyclists only get harassed and arrested and tackled [...]
I may have previously pointed-out the Denver Money Train (if I did it probably would have come from TOW). That anecdote seemed to suggest that in an overall national economic environment of rapidly falling house prices, having light rail near your house could be good for maintaining its value.
The question is, is the converse true, [...]
So says Peter Smith, bicycle and transit blogger from San Francisco - but mostly a bicycle blogger. There are lots of reasons it makes perfect sense. Get it done.
Some disagree.
Horse puckey!
Listen, there is a lot we can do with pricing to try to make our transit systems better. The rationale for charging decongestion pricing for [...]
Residents of northern northern California might be getting a new skyline:
Gov’t Pushes Oil Drilling Off California Coast
The San Francisco Chronicle reports the federal government is taking steps that may open California’s coast to oil drilling in as few as three years. The Interior Department has moved to open some or all federal waters for exploration [...]
