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Gridlock: Why Panic is Overrated When Talking Transpo

Yesterday was the great debate and committee markup session for the House Transportation Bill. As expected, it was all about the posturing about priorities.

Those priorities, per the chief supporters, were highways. A provision revealed in markup yesterday showed that dedicated funding for transit would also disappear.

An amendment to restore enhancements and Safe Routes to Schools failed [...]

February 3rd, 2012 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle laws, bicyclists, common sense, election, evaluation, federal funds, legislation, pedestrian access, politics, road construction, roadway design, roadway use, safe routes to schools, share the road, taxes, transportation options, urban planning | Leave a comment

Tuesday Transpo Bill Update!

Yeah, up the defcon level and shake your panic maker. Today’s the day the proposed Transpo Bill gets published.

Turns out it may be even worse than previously rumored.

A few points:

Transportation Enhancements become optional.
Safe Routes to Schools gets axed.
Eliminated bike/ped coordinators in state DOTs — while presumably, they could still be funded at the state level,it wouldn’t [...]

January 31st, 2012 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle bridges, bicycle facilities, bicycle routes, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike lanes, complete streets, election, evaluation, federal funds, league of american bicyclists, legislation, pedestrian access, politics, road construction, roadway design, roadway use, safe routes to schools, share the road, transportation options, urban planning | Leave a comment

Advocates, Advocate. Harder.

I’ve been on a wee bit of a spree lately about the continual state of Defcon 11 every time there is federal hiccuping about restricting funds for Transportation Enhancements, or cutting Safe Routes to Schools, or classifying bicycles as vegetables instead of vehicles.

Here’s the thing: These are serious issues. We should be concerned about them. But [...]

January 28th, 2012 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle commuting, bicycle safety, bicyclists, biking with kids, children on bikes, education, encouragement, environmentalism, evaluation, federal funds, legislation, minneapolis, pedestrian access, politics, roadway design, roadway use, safe routes to schools, share the road, transportation options, urban planning | One comment

A New Transportation Bill? Panic, Round 8,377,201

Next Thursday, February 2, the House Transportation Committee is expected to vote on the “American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act.” Note the propaganda-friendly naming. This is, in fact, intended to be the long-awaited multi-year transportation bill.

As usual, we are being asked to PANIC about it and contact appropriate representatives. The League is asking us to contact [...]

January 27th, 2012 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle facilities, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike education, election, federal funds, league of american bicyclists, legislation, minnesota, oregon, pedestrian access, politics, road construction, roadway design, roadway use, safe routes to schools, share the road, transportation options, urban planning | 2 comments

A Bike Route on Snelling Avenue?

Shouts out to @reubencollins on ze Twitter for tweeting this article about people looking to have the resurfacing project on Snelling Avenue in St. Paul include bike lanes.

This is a reasonably good article, with some gaps. The main gap is really surrounding the concept of Complete Streets, and I’m not strictly certain that’s on the author [...]

January 7th, 2012 | Category: bicycle commuting, bicycle facilities, bicycle routes, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike lanes, complete streets, crosswalks, cycling in the media, enforcement, engineering, evaluation, jerks, minnesota, pedestrian access, public meetings, road construction, roadway design, roadway use, share the road, st. paul, traffic accidents, traffic calming, transportation options, urban planning | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)

Copenhagenize on Winter Cycling: Right, Yet Not Entirely

The excellent Copehnagenize has an excellent post on how most posts on cycling in winter complicate the issue and emphasize subculture instead of mainstreaming the notion.

They both have a point, and miss one, in my opinion.

It’s a very good point that most of the info disseminated by bicycle advocates about cycling in the snow really orients [...]

January 6th, 2012 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle clothes, bicycle commuting, bicycle facilities, bicycle gear, bicycle routes, bicyclists, europe, midtown greenway, minneapolis, minnesota, roadway design, roadway use, share the road, transportation options, winter cycling | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
 
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