Portland KATU ABC News
May 13, 2015
[…] Bicyclists have planned a “die-in” at Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) headquarters in downtown Portland Wednesday, several days after a fellow biker’s leg was severed by a pickup truck driver. […] Monday, Portland’s bicycling community held a protest along SE Powell Boulevard, maintaining it’s a dangerous stretch of road for both bikers and pedestrians. […]
LA Times
5/12/15
[…] Four of the nearly 50 self-driving cars undergoing tests on California roads since September, when the state began issuing permits to auto companies, have crashed. […] Consumer Watchdog learned of the Google’s robotic cars crashes after it filed a Public Records Act request with the DMV. […]
The Guardian
May 5, 2-15
[…] In the 1960s, Dutch cities were increasingly in thrall to motorists, with the car seen as the transport of the future. It took the intolerable toll of child traffic deaths – and fierce activism – to turn Amsterdam into the cycling nirvana of today […]
The American Conservative
4/22/15
[… ] Ferguson today is trapped: in 2013 it spent $800,000 paying interest on debt while being able to devote only $25,000 to sidewalk maintenance. There is a reason people in Ferguson might walk in the streets instead of on the sidewalks. […]
An 1899 Plan to Build A Bike Highway in Los Angeles (And Why It Failed)
Gizmodo
4/27/15
Over a century ago, the California Cycleway promised an elevated, dedicated bike path from Los Angeles to the nearby city of Pasadena. In this excerpt from the new book LAtitudes: An Angeleno’s Atlas, author Dan Koeppel tracks its path through Southern California—and discovers why it was never finished.
Time
4/28/15
[…] An Audi research facility in Dresden, Germany, has managed to create the first batches of diesel fuel with a net-zero carbon footprint — made from carbon dioxide (CO2), water and renewable energy sources such as wind or solar power. […]
WNYC
3/31/15
[…] Including, for the first time ever, protected bike lanes — something that has long been of big interest in that community. […] According to city data, there were 38 traffic fatalities and 448 severe injuries on that roadway from 2003 to 2013. […]
Oregonian
3/31/15
[…] As anyone who has been stuck in northbound Interstate 5’s soul-sucking 5:30 p.m. creep knows, Portland traffic is getting worse.
In fact, the 2015 TomTom Travel Index, set to be released on Tuesday, claims Stumptown is the nation’s 10th most congested city, virtually tied with gridlock-plagued Washington, D.C. […]
San Diego CBS News 8
3/28/15
[…] University Avenue is the most dangerous corridor for bicyclists and pedestrians, according to one local non-profit, and that problem would be addressed in a new plan, but it could also remove – at the maximum – some 90 parking spots in the neighborhood, which merchants are not supporting. […]
Vox
3/27/15
[…] Bikes, if anything, are seen as a very recent intrusion on them.
But the surprising truth is that back in the 1890s and early 1900s, it was mainly cyclists who first advocated for cities in the US and Europe to pave their streets and build new roads. […]
