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1.Bike boulevards bubble up in Washington (www.bellinghamherald.com)
Draft ideas for "urban village" zoning in the Fountain District include a bicycle boulevard running east-west through the heart of the Columbia neighborhood. Since it's a new idea in town, here's a primer on bicycle boulevards, both in general and for Fountain District:
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Weekly News Wrap-Up: BikeMonth, BikeMap, BikeTickets (bikingtoronto.com)Weekly News Wrap-Up: BikeMonth, BikeMap, BikeTickets
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Are Toronto Police Ticketing Cyclists More? (bikingtoronto.com)The Bike Union is reporting that some cyclists are reporting that the police are looking for cycling infractions more recently:
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Bicycle Sidecar Build (www.steves-workshop.co.uk)The Bicycle Sidecar was developed so the whole family could go cycling together.
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Sault Teen Killed by vehicle (www.soonews.ca)A 19 year old male teen is dead after being struck by a vehicle early Sunday morning.
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Retired Bus Driver Of Durham (busdriverofdurham.blogspot.com)Transit news from a bus driver's point of view
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A Broader Perspective on High-Speed Rail (www.martinprosperity.org)Economic history is replete with evidence of forward-thinking infrastructure investments that could not be justified by the evaluation tools of their time but ultimately proved transformative to the economic system. The Trans-Canada railway, the U.S. Interstate Highway System, and ARPANET (precursor to the Internet) all fall into this category.
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Retired police officer fools motorists into slowing down by building bird box that looks like speed camera | Mail Online (www.dailymail.co.uk)A bird box resembling a traffic camera has put the brakes on speeding motorists racing through a village.
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Chicago Transit: From Good to Great, Part 1 – Building the Vision (www.urbanophile.com)Why doesn’t Chicago have a great transit system? I’m going to make a rather contrarian and controversial indictment. Namely, I think Chicago doesn’t have a great system because its citizens don’t want on
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Google Street View Snowmobile (digital.venturebeat.com)terating off the Street View car and the Street View “tricycle”, Google has built another contraption to record the physical world for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
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Seniors want to get back on the bus (www.thebarrieexaminer.com)J.T. McVeigh PhotoBetty Bouse, left, and Rita Fielding are upset that changes to the city's transit lines means that they have to transfer to two buses to make it up to Bayfield Street's malls.
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Car-friendly suburban streets can be deadly for pedestrians - (www.thestar.com)Wide lanes and sweeping curves encourage speed and make people out for a walk more vulnerable
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Vans and the places where they were. (californiavans.arloartists.com)Vans and the places where they were documents surviving custom and conversion vans across the West and examines the dialogue which exists between a van’s design aesthetic and that of its surrounding environment
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twin city sidewalks: This post will change your life! (tcsidewalks.blogspot.com)If you’re of a certain age, you’re justifiably terrified of slipping and falling on icy sidewalks. That’s the kind of accident that can dramatically, and irreversibly change your life.
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15.Green Streets Initiative: About Green Streets (www.gogreenstreets.org)
The Green Streets Initiative is an international grassroots organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA that celebrates, promotes, and advocates for the use of alternative transportation.
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PDF Download: Bloor Street Parking and Bike Lane Study (www.cleanairpartnership.org)The purpose of this study, funded by Transport Canada, the Toronto Community Foundation and the City of Toronto, is to understand and estimate the importance of on-street parking to business.
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Video: Local Motion Channel - RBCC (rbcc.ca)An Eco-mobility Challenge The challenge: how many people from one Edmonton community can leave their personal automobiles at home and get eco-mobile for the month of June?
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Pedestrians have rights at crosswalks Michelle Murray Sudbury (www.thesudburystar.com)Having recently moved back to Sudbury after a 2 1/2-year stint on Canada's west coast, I was brutally reminded of the risks pedestrians take each day, simply trying to cross a city street.
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Orillia Bus service to return on trial basis (www.orilliapacket.com)Bus service will resume in a west-end neighbourhood on a trial basis, but residents say that's not good enough.Council voted Monday night to extend half-hourly transit service on the Georgian route to Esther Anne Drive, Sandra Drive and Karen Crescent — where residents have been lobbying for service — on a three-month trial basis and have a passenger count done during that time.
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Speeder hits ambulance, second vehicle before coming to a stop (www.thesudburystar.com)A driver sped past a police cruiser in Azilda and turned suddenly onto Montee Principale, lost control of his vehicle and hit an ambulance and another vehicle on Monday, Greater Sudbury Police said.
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Great urban biking videos (www.eyetohand.com) -
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CUI: Aging & Mobility (www.canurb.com)Aging and Mobility is a multi-disciplinary research project initiated by the CUI intended to advance our understanding of critical issues facing decision-makers and those responsible for policy with respect to the aging of society and the subsequent impact on the quality of life
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Grace period for distracted drivers ends (www.northernlife.ca)When the grace period ends, officers will begin issuing fines to drivers who use hand-helds while driving. The law allows fines up to $500 for residential drivers, though the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) has set the initial fine at $155.
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Sudbury Grandview meeting (www.northernlife.ca)The City of Greater Sudbury has four recorded collisions at 1020 Grandview Blvd. on file, according to the city’s communications department: one in 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2007.
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Moving Forward 2031Regional Transportation Master Plan (www.movingforward2031.ca)The new Regional Transportation Master Plan (RTMP) will build upon the existing transportation master plan and provide a comprehensive forward-looking strategy of priority improvements and programs required for the Region to meet the following transportation challenges
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