So am I the only one who had to evacuate to the basement at work due to tornadoes? The funny thing is we're doing a launch rehersal focused on anomalies and so now we can check that contingency off the list. Lots of "how did you pull that off" jokes directed at the simulation director.
- "I don't harbor any illusion that they changed the policy because of me," says Tregoning.
- The optimal M Street (and Eye Street) design probably isn't even one of the options here. As oboe might point out, there is some extra space (scraps) and they're letting transit, bikes and peds fight over it. Instead, they should accept that maximizing transportation through there might mean taking some space from autos.
- An interview with Bethesda native Rich Roll (not to be confused with a rickroll) one of only two people to complete five Ironman triathlons on five Hawaiian islands in under a week. He's also one of the 25 fittest men in the world (Paul Ryan is the other 24).
- Counter-intuitively, Philadelphia has more cyclists and fewer crashes. We could probably argue over which caused the other (did safety lead to more cyclists, or more cyclists to safety), but really, why fight?
- MAP-21, the new federal transportation bill, may have less money for biking and peds, but it is targeted more at cities.
The evidence that the presence of more bikes has a traffic calming effect is getting stronger and strongerer.
Posted by: Crikey7 | September 18, 2012 at 06:55 PM
Hey, Paul Ryan ran a marathon in under 50 minutes. Or something like that.
Posted by: Michael H. | September 19, 2012 at 12:45 AM
Phladelphia - far fewer intersections of diagonal streets with diagonal ones, painfully expensive parking in the core, a Schuylkill River recreational trail that kills (in a good way) and calmer urban traffic in no small part because of the insanely great layered mass trans options including dum-dum-dum... streetcars. A few, anyway...
Posted by: Read Scott Martin | September 19, 2012 at 06:37 AM