June 2012
112 posts
4 tags
CA HSR compared to other transportation...
California’s population expected to grow from 38 million to 60 million by 2050.
equivalent capacity to Phase 1 Blended:
4,300 new highway lane miles
115 additional airport gates
4 new airport runways
estimated $158 billion for road and airport extensions
Caltrans estimates $132.8 billion operating and maintanance costs over 50 years for the additional highway infrastructure.
from a...
4 tags
May 2012
160 posts
5 tags
There goes the neighborhood! [san diego, 31 may -... →
There Goes the Neighborhood! is a four day event that positions “the neighborhood” as a fluid institution of creative production, critical thinking and intersecting interests. Collaborations between artists, residents, small businesses, universities and local activists will culminate in a series of workshops, talks, installations, performances and tours that center around the North...
6 tags
3 tags
WatchThe WATT? An Energy 101 Primer. An interactive e-book to complement and enhance our user’s guide to energy in the 21st Century. Help combat energy illiteracy.
What happens when you turn on the light switch, the car ignition; where your sneakers and tomatoes come from…
treehugger, 30.05.12. help back this project! kickstarter.
3 tags
i hate when people don't recycle their cardboard...
UCSD students, and general public, can you really be that idiotic and lazy
do you not realise that cardboard is paper is recyclable
and that the sleeve is detachable from the to-go coffee cup
and also did you never notice the triangle recycle imprint on the plastic lid
yes, i took off the cardboard sleeves from three empty coffee cups in the trash and threw them into the recycling bin right...
7 tags
Watch
The Great Wall of Oakland, a 100’x100’ projection installation, illuminates the Uptown District with cutting-edge motion art from around the world. Every first Friday during OAKLAND ART MURMUR.
so many things going on on the sunny side of the Bay! pretty excited to be back soon, and glad I have a home in Oakland. San Diego does seem very dull and lull compared to all the events and...
7 tags
7 tags
Ithaca mayor turns his personal parking space into... →
After Svante Myrick, 25, became the youngest-ever mayor of Ithaca, N.Y., he gave up his car to join the estimated 15 percent of his city’s residents who walk to work. As mayor, however, Myrick has a prime downtown parking spot reserved for his exclusive use. So instead of letting it stand empty, last week he began to, as he put it, “turn the Mayor’s parking space into a park space.”
grist,...
6 tags
WatchParking Douche, an app for reporting badly parked vehicles in Moscow.
via laughingsquid and atlanticcities, 21.05.12.
5 tags
Let's Sample Life Among the Small Streets and... →
smallstreeets:
The Old City of Copenhagen is my favorite place in the whole world. There’s something about the way the small streets, colorful buildings, and great public spaces work together that’s unlike any other place I’ve visited. How about we take a little trip there? Google Maps is no substitute for the real thing, but it can give us a taste.
Here’s a pretty normal street in the Old...
3 tags
5 tags
3 tags
8 tags
Now Coveted: A Walkable, Convenient Place →
Mariela Alfonzo and I just released a Brookings Institution study that measures values of commercial and residential real estate in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, which includes the surrounding suburbs in Virginia and Maryland. Our research shows that real estate values increase as neighborhoods became more walkable, where everyday needs, including working, can be met by walking,...
3 tags
6 tags
6 tags
7 tags
Paris to allow cyclists to run red lights in bid... →
Councillors in the French capital have voted to adopt the measure following a three-year campaign by cycle associations.
It will allow those on bicycles to turn right or go straight ahead, even when a traffic light is on red.
But they will have to give way to pedestrians, and traffic coming from the left. Crucially, they will also be held responsible if there is an accident.
Tests on the...
6 tags
5 tags
20 percent by 2020 →
What would it really take to meet the city’s ambitious cycling goal — and do leaders have the political will to get there?
the cycle track / separated/protected bike lane on JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park, SF. photo by SFbike.
The latest SFMTA traffic survey, released in February, showed that bikes represent about 3.5 percent of vehicle trips, a 71 percent increase in five years. While...
7 tags
10 tags
2 tags
8 tags
"Off the Grid" comes to Alameda! (Bay Area) →
Off the Grid: Berkeley in the Gourmet Ghetto (upper Shattuck Ave.) on wednesdays. photo by Jeff P.
…the Alameda outpost of Off the Grid at South Shore Center will feature a rotating lineup of eight to ten trucks, including CupKates, Brass Knuckle, Fivetenburger, Curry Up Now, Hapa SF, Mayo & Mustard, Dosa Republic, Señor Sisig, LIBA Falafel, Pacific Puffs, Nick’s Wheely Good...
6 tags
7 tags
3 tags
7 tags
3 tags
5 tags
went to my first neighborhood meeting
mon. 21.05.12. @inn at the park. nice views from the top floor.
Beth, an active transportation planner from SANDAG gave a presentation on the different kinds of cycle infrastructure. a grumpy old couple walked out early because the wife was disgusted. she was shaking her head throughout the entire presentation (until she left). said bicyclists are a pain in the butt! gonna make our streets like...
6 tags
“We are now putting in place better ways to empower Londoners to name and shame...”
– The Mayor of London.
report a roadworks problem in London.
via The Mall Closure—Why? cycalogical, 20.05.12.
hmmm if the next mayor of San Diego would be that strong..
5 tags
6 tags
2 tags
i hella need to be camera-ready
to snap cycle chic pics.
yesterday on campus i saw a lady in a nice purple spring/summer dress on an upright.
then cycling from the shuttle stop in hillcrest, there was a man in casual wear (dress pants, white shirt, suspenders), on a small vintage (1960s) clown bike! holding a copy of Citybeat and other papers in his right hand on the handlebar. small wheels, like maybe a little smaller than...
4 tags
8 tags
Electronic bicycle counter coming to Hawthorne... →
At long last, Portland is set to install an electronic bicycle counter. The new tool, which will be placed on the Hawthorne Bridge, will provide a daily and annual, ongoing count of the number of people who pass by on a bicycle..
The new counter will be an Eco-Totem made by Eco-Counter, a Montreal-based company. Funding for the project was supplied via a $20,000 grant from Cycle Oregon. The...
8 tags
5 tags
5 tags
8 tags
Transit GIS Clearinghouse Webinar – OTP and Its... →
Webinar date: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 1:00 PM ET
This free, Transit GIS Clearinghouse webinar will tell the story of the Portland Regional Trip Planner, the first fully open-source, multimodal trip itinerary planning application to be released by a U.S. transit agency. Officially unveiled by TriMet in October 2011, the launch followed an unprecedented three-year partnership between the agency...
4 tags
San Diego's Infrastructure Deficit Disorder →
Like a good physician, Chuck’s prescription was healthy and inspired changes in our behavior.
…Chuck simply stated that our explicitly suburban pattern of development is a well-documented financial blunder. Instead, he instructed us to stop what we had been doing and fix what is broken with a traditional, more urban pattern of development. We should be rebuilding at a more incremental...
5 tags
4 tags
“It starts with the bike rides…. then next year’s seniors want to...”
– comment by carlysue on “60 Students Suspended for Biking to School (?!?)” treehugger, 22.05.12.
7 tags
High school seniors suspended for biking to school →
On the second to last day of school, 60 seniors from Kenowa Hills High School in Walker, Michigan, rode their bikes to school. It wasn’t an improvised things either, as they had police escort and did it safely, and even the mayor joined them (handing out donuts, which isn’t exactly health food, but nobody was forced to eat them). But their principal, out of some sort of...
6 tags
steven can plan →
aaah I should’ve met Steven Vance when I was in Chicago
5 tags
my friend got doored :[
this evening going east on University Ave. in La Mesa.
no serious injuries, though.
his rear axle caught the door…
___________
watch out before getting out of your car, and bike outside of the door zone
and drivers please don’t bitch about cyclists not cycling “right” enough in the lane.
and if you hear some girl shouting “DOOR!” please fucking react and...
6 tags
Downtown LA's new variable parking pricing →
Dynamic parking pricing has hit LA, with the official launch of the ExpressPark program today in four and half square miles of Downtown. Under the year-long pilot, pricing at meters and in city-owned lots will fluctuate in response to demand, and will range from 50 cents up to six dollars an hour (meters are currently $1 to $4 per hour). There are 6,000 meters and 7,500 lot spaces covered by...
8 tags
Los Angeles Lives by Car, but Learns to Embrace... →
“I can’t keep up with all the group rides out there these days,” said Damien Newton, the founding editor of Los Angeles Streetsblog, which champions bikers and pedestrians. “This isn’t a side thing anymore. It’s definitely out of the shadows and out of the subculture.”
Mayor Villaraigosa said he wanted the city to establish 40 miles of bike lanes and paths a year, a policy inspired by his own...
6 tags
