Category Archives: Cycling
Replace On-street Parking with Bike Racks!?
Portland, Oregon did just that…the City removed 2 parallel on-street parking spaces and replaced them with racks that serve about 20 bikes.
Bicycles in Paris
Check out the great black and white photographs of Paris by Siobhan Mlacak. Her bicycle images are fabulous.
Transportation Vision for Lebanon
Transportation Vision for My City By Frank Gould There is a fair city named Lebanon whose by-ways have long known congestion let’s make positive change across the whole range from bike-ped to car to ten ton. Let’s plan what is … Continue reading
Sharrows coming soon to Hanover
Sharrows are coming soon to Lebanon Street in Hanover. A number of shared lane arrows will be painted on the street in front of Hanover High School to more clearly define the bicycle route. How cool is that. More information will … Continue reading
4th & 5th Graders Design
Yesterday I had the pleasure of helping with a design charette at the local elementary school. ORW, landscape architects, orchestrated a fascinating afternoon for 28 4th & 5th graders. The students’ charge was to collect information about their school yard. They were … Continue reading
Boston Plans to Share Bikes
In the Boston Globe today, Mayor Menino announced plans to launch a bike sharing program in Boston next Spring. Check out the Globe article here
Excellence in Motion at Stanford
From Metro-Magazine, October 27, 2008: Stanford University’s Transportation and Parking Program was presented with an “Excellence in Motion” merit award by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in Oakland, Calif., last week. The program was one of 11 people, projects and organizations to … Continue reading
Bike Sharing Programs
Here’s a great white paper from the Victoria Transport Policy Institute: http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm126.htm I had the opportunity to see programs at work in Brussels and Paris this spring – very cool.
Commuting Video
A week ago today, about 200 people attended Dartmouth’s Commuting Breakfast. Peter Glenshaw, Director of Community Relations, put together the successful event and made a short video that I think captures some of what’s happening here in the Upper Valley. Check it … Continue reading