January 2012
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House Bill Reverses Decades of Progress on... →
Today, the House releases its transportation bill, the American Energy and Infrastructure Act. Please click here to contact your member of Congress.
Last week, we knew the bill would be bad news for biking and walking. But we didn’t think it would go so far as to completely cut every reference to bicycling and walking out of the federal transportation policy.
House leadership is pressing to...
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San Diego land use planning at its best! →
Vacant office space in Hillcrest to become Walgreens
Originally proposed to be part of a boutique hotel, the vacant building at 301 University Ave. in Hillcrest will become a Walgreens before the end of 2012.
read more: sduptownnews, 06.01.12.
so what, if the boutique hotel thing fell through? I’m sure there’s some group of creative architects out there that would love to make...
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Why cities are unaffordable →
On Atlantic Cities, Nate Berg reports that an analysis by Wendell Cox and Hugh Pavletich for Demographia on affordable housing is incomplete. I would go further and say that the analysis is flat-out wrong…
That connection between appeal and higher costs can be mitigated in at least two ways, aside from direct subsidies for affordable housing. One idea is to recognize that the most...
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In Hong Kong, a Wasted Chance to Recycle Glass →
[…]in many Asian countries, waste management is struggling to keep pace with the rapid rise in consumption, and the resulting garbage, that has accompanied economic growth. Recycling has been a feature of everyday life in Europe for decades, but in many developing economies — or even in developed economies like Hong Kong’s — it has yet to gain real momentum.
To be fair, Hong Kong has...
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On cleantech, no Newt is good Newt →
In the 1990s, the Gingrich Congress tried to shut down the Department of Energy (DOE), slash all clean energy research, stop the joint government-industry effort to develop a super-efficient hybrid car, and zero out all programs aimed specifically at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and accelerating technology deployment…
Last year, Newt proposed replacing the EPA with an “Environmental...
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Townie Ride and Sour Sunday [29.01.12] →
:: SUNDAY, JANUARY 29 :: » Townie Ride and Sour Sunday « Join us for a bike ride through Normal Heights on your fixie, 3-speed, touring bike, uni, tall bike or whatever. Meet up at BLAH at 10am ro an easy-going ride around town and back to BLAH in time for lunch and some beers.. » It’s also SOUR SUNDAY! Check this list out - Russian River Supplication, Lost Abbey Cuvee de...
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CRITICAL MASS!!!
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got back at 10 (starts at 8pm). because I dropped out after they were heading to the airport AGAIN to get to OB (ocean beach).
I wasn’t about to go to Point Loma and OB. because you know as soon as you get there, people are gonna want to do the whole shebang: Mission Bay, Mission Beach, PB, next thing you’re all the way up in La Jolla. and then have to go through Old Town...
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Bike Ladies Unite!: To The Guy Who Gave Me Some... →
bikeladiesunite:
I don’t know why you felt the need to pull up next to me at a light and ruin a rare warm afternoon by condescending to me. Maybe it was that I, riding a very girly single-speed basket bike in a circa-1965 outfit, continually passed you, riding a wide- and knobby-tired mountain bike with your knees flailing about and a helmet cam perched atop your head. It wasn’t personal,...
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Finding the zone: The Zen of urban cycling →
In the woods, it is about flowing over logs in the trail, cruising through seemingly lineless rock gardens, and dipping between tight trees. On the city streets, it’s about weaving past the guy on his cell phone who steps out from between parked cars, adapting to an aggressive lane change by a soccer mom in a minivan, or avoiding a car door swinging open into your lane. In so many ways, urban...
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more lofts? Fat City Lofts loses to Solar Turbines →
sd u-t, 25.01.12.
so this is going to be built or not?
I can’t comprehend this article no matter how many times I read it. I should start following San Diego news more often.
Board Approves Design of Fat City Lofts Project; Fails to Pass Recommendation on Land-Use Permits
The Board voted 6-0 with two abstentions (Chair Kilkenny and Secretary Relyea) to grant design review approval,...
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Neighborhood Greenways: the Vision →
“Hey Sally, my mom and I are going to bike to the park and we’ll be going right by your house in 10 minutes, want to come?
Oh that sounds great. I’ll bring my brother and his friend too. They have these awesome new skateboards and say skating on our new Neighborhood Greenway is great!
Oh, good! My mom loves the new Neighborhood Greenways too! Before, she used to never bike and didn’t feel safe...
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Europe's view on helmets
Europe has a different take on helmets altogether. The European Cyclists’ Federation believes that, instead of making it compulsory for cyclists to wear helmets, the authorities should concentrate on preventing accidents. The Federation believes that promoting the wearing of helmets by cyclists is not an effective way to improve safety for cyclists and that road safety for cyclists can only be...
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ok, I think I just might
get hit by a car one day, living and cycling in San Diego.
I take 2nd Avenue downtown. Downhill. There are stop signs on 2nd Ave. I blow through these (when I for sure don’t see any cars; and if I’m not sure, I do the “rolling” stop), because I’m going downhill. There are two cross streets that don’t have stop signs. This is dangerous for me.
But more...
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SPUR: How Will 1.7 Million More People Cross the Bay?
sf.streetsblog, 17.08.11.
Build a second transbay tube!, upgrade BART, reconfigure travel lanes during commute hours.
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Engineers Unveil Designs for Bike/Ped Path on Bay... →
How cool would it be to bike across the Bay Bridge??
super cool.
For more than 15 years, bicycle advocates in San Francisco and the East Bay have pushed for a west span path to connect bike commuters to the east span path expected to open between Oakland to Yerba Buena Island by 2014.
read more: sf.streetsblog, 14.12.11.
*conceptual photo is a cross-section! Hopefully we won’t be...
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next thursday in san deezy
Which to go to? somehow make it both??
Pecha Kucha night @mingei museum (Balboa Park) 6-10pm. drinks and art and presentations (8:20pm) (all-museum access). SD architectural foundation.
or True North (bar in North Park) with SDCBC 5pm and then Bicycle Dreams (documentary film) @museum of photographic arts (Balboa Park) 7-9:30pm.
thurs. 02.feb. 2012.
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”peruse...
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EAST BAY!! Measure B Reauthorization: Final Board... →
We need you to come out to help support $1 Billion in funding for bike and pedestrian projects over the next 30 years in Alameda County. What will this mean for you? This funding will help complete our regional trails like the Bay Trail, East Bay Greenway, and the Iron Horse. Come down to ACTC at noon tomorrow and voice your support.
Alameda CTC Steering Committee Mtg Janaury 26, 12noon-3:00pm or...
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Peter Furth: [2:12] A lot of times in the U. S. when you’re riding your bike, you feel almost like an outlaw. You feel like, “Oh, can I just find a little tiny bit of space for myself?” Here, you feel like they’re just laying out the red carpet for you.
Cycling Copenhagen, Through North American Eyes. streetfilms, 10.07.10.
can I just move to Scandinavia? heaven.
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“WE NEED SIDEWALKS!!!!”
– from a parent survey re: walking and biking to school. Lakeview Elementary in East San Diego County.
America is so backwards. It’s unbelievable that we don’t have one of the most integral parts of infrastructure. *Where’s our money going toward? Widening roads.*
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“I worry about my daughter crossing Los Coches without me! It’s a huge...”
– from a parent survey re: walking and biking to school. Lakeview Elementary in East San Diego County.
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“I often hear now-a-days, the automobile instigated good roads; that the...”
– Horatio Earle, 1929. Father of the Good Roads Movement.
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Powell Promenade Offers Seating, Wi-Fi, and... →
Mayor Ed Lee cut the ribbon to open the Powell Promenade on Wednesday, July 13th surrounded by government officials, the designer of the project, and Audi representatives.
The Powell Promenade is designed to widen one of the busiest street sections in San Francisco which often has 100,000 people walking up and down it on a busy weekend day. In the eight seperate sections, designer Walter Hood...
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pointless poll
You have double-pane windows. They do not block out loud sounds entirely, however. (and you like to open them sometimes.)
Where would you rather live?
Under a flight path (planes landing)
Near an airport field (you can hear planes revving, taking off)
Next to a freeway
Near a railroad (freight trains and loud amtrak, not HSR)
Next to an elevated metro/subway track
Over underground...
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Economic impact of high-speed rail varies in Spain →
Valciente and Martin, who are in their 70s, tend to orange and other fruit trees and corn on their 6 1/2-acre farm. Chickens roam uncaged, pecking at the dirt around the pomegranate trees, pepper plants and cacti in the yard.
The AVE trains speed by the small farmstead several times an hour, “and it hasn’t affected us at all,” Valciente said.
“We don’t even...
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You just can’t get enough.. reasons to cycle.
from the Bikeminded campaign.
Positive campaigns like this video are desperately needed in the States.
