Cyclists Can Ignore Some Traffic Lights, Paris Announces
KPBS
July 9, 2015
[…] The new policy follows several years of an experiment in which Paris allowed cyclists to pass through intersections more fluidly. The city says the test demonstrated that “the passage of cyclists through red lights isn’t accident-prone and avoids certain conflicts between cyclists and vehicles that are stopped at lights” – notably those cases in which a bike is in a car’s blind spot. […]
Bike-sharing as a bridge between commute gaps
LA Times
7/7/2015
[…] Bike-share, which is available in most major U.S. cities and 25 countries in Europe, could translate well to car-choked Los Angeles, where officials are pushing to reduce driving. […] Bike-share is slated to debut downtown in the spring, and will probably expand to Pasadena the following year, with possible future sites in Hollywood, Venice and East Los Angeles. L.A. officials have sung the system’s praises, saying it could eliminate some car trips, make transit use more fun and help the city look more in step with London, New York City and Paris, which have their own bike networks. […]
Despite improvements, driving in America remains extraordinarily dangerous
Economist
July 4, 2015
[…] These numbers are better than a few decades ago, but still far worse than in any other developed country. […] If American roads were as safe per-mile-driven as Ireland’s, the number of lives saved each year would be equivalent to preventing all the murders in the country. […]
Walking in L.A.: Times analysis finds the county’s 817 most dangerous intersections
LA Times
7/12/2015
[…] A Los Angeles Times analysis shows nearly a quarter of traffic accidents involving a pedestrian occur at less than 1% of the city’s intersections. […]
Pedestrians were involved in 1 in 10 traffic accidents in Los Angeles from 2002 through 2013, but represented more than 35% of road deaths. […]
Bad Commutes Make an Economy Worse
Chicago Magazine
June 22, 2015
[…] I shaved 20 minutes to an hour off my commute every day. I can bike to work in 25 minutes flat, with virtually no variation; the bus ride is usually at least 35 minutes, often 45 or more in bad traffic or weather.
Vision Hyperion: Advocates Sue City Claiming Inadequate Study of Bridge Redesign
Streetsblog LA
July 7, 2015
“We hope that with more time and another chance to evaluate the options with open minds, thought and reason will prevail,” Ward concluded. “Our communities deserve a historic bridge that is safe and accessible for people walking and biking and [for] people with disabilities.”
Weekday Car Traffic to Be Banned in Parts of Central and Prospect Parks
New York Times
June 18, 2015
[…] The closings in Central Park and Prospect Park, which pedestrian advocates have been seeking for decades, will banish cars from sections of the verdant thoroughfares that wind along the edges of both parks. […]
“We’re creating safe zones for kids to play in, for bikers, for joggers, for everyone to know that they will be safer and they can enjoy the park in peace,” he said. […]
Seattle Bike Blog
June 22, 2015
For more than a year, a group of Westlake residents, business owners, industry leaders and community members — including people who walk, bike and drive — have been meeting regularly to work with designers and the city to craft a design plan for a safe Westlake bikeway that considers everyone’s needs. […] So it came as awful news that Nautical Landing, a self-described “superyacht” marina and dealer, has filed a lawsuit anyway, undercutting all that community work and threatening to delay the project for at least a year. […]
Streets Blog USA
May 28, 2015
[…] Fifteen months after American bikeway designer Nick Falbo coined the phrase “protected intersection” to refer to a Dutch-style intersection between two streets with protected bike lanes, the concept hasn’t just ricocheted around the Internet — it’s been approved by four different cities.
The cities of Austin, Salt Lake City, Davis and Boston are now in a four-way race to create the first working protected intersection in the United States. […]
City Lab
May 7, 2015
[…] Following a set of promises to slash diesel usage, extend lower speed limits and bar polluting cars from the city core, Mayor Anne Hidalgo this week announced a plan to thoroughly reclaim the quayside on the right bank of the River Seine for pedestrians. With cars already banished from a long strip of the Left Bank, the Seine in central Paris will as of summer 2016 be entirely encased within two lush, motor-free parkland buffers. […]
