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Does Your City Have Ambitions?

Cities are launching pads for all sorts of human aspirations. (Photo: Gold41 via Flickr) Yesterday, at The Urbanophile, Aaron Renn posted a thoughtful essay about the idea of the "city as platform." He looks at all the different meanings of the word ...

From SARAH GOODYEAR, Streetsblog,  15 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Flickr

Streetsblog Commenters, Unite!

Regular readers will notice something new and different across all our sites starting today. Currently, some of the posts you see on the local Streetsblog sites — New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Capitol Hill — actually originated on a ...

From SARAH GOODYEAR, Streetsblog,  12 Mar 2010

Mercedes Exploits the Daredevil Cyclist Stereotype

You might have seen it making the rounds over the last couple of days -- the new Mercedes ad in which a bike messenger challenges a driver in one of the company's luxury vehicles to a race from Harlem to the Fulton Ferry landing in Brooklyn. There are ...

From SARAH GOODYEAR, Streetsblog,  11 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Google Inc.

Walk and Smell the Flowers

You see more when you walk, of course. I saw daffodils and crocuses and some fruit trees (cherry? plum?) blooming. I saw two places that were complete barriers to anyone wheelchair bound. They should be fixed.… I didn't get run over, though I had ...

From SARAH GOODYEAR, Streetsblog,  10 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Harry Potter,  Flickr,  Working Families Party

Using Social Media to Fix Transit That Fails

At Streetsblog Network member blog Planning Pool, this week is being billed as "Fail Week" --a full five days on "information about bad planning, lack of planning, and planning generally gone awry." We can't wait to see what they'll be doing. There's ...

From SARAH GOODYEAR, Streetsblog,  9 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Flickr

Saving Money by Ditching the Car

It’s important to understand I am an average Joe, in my thirties, working  a 9-5 desk job. I have a wife and a one-year-old son. I live in an average-size city with an average public transportation infrastructure, and I live seven miles from the ...

From SARAH GOODYEAR, Streetsblog,  8 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Flickr

Rising to the Challenge of Bringing Kids on Transit

The second time I rode the bus with both babies…I was parenting solo, and, thanks to a morning errand in the neighborhood, arrived at the 48 stop mere seconds before the bus did. I quickly removed Chicklet from her stroller, but when I tried to ...

From SARAH GOODYEAR, Streetsblog,  4 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Zipcar

The Importance of Family-Friendly Transit

Some may dismiss families with children as an unlikely (or undesirable) transit demographic, and propose that transit agencies instead focus on those demographics more likely to be transit-compatible, such as childless families and commuters. ...

From SARAH GOODYEAR, Streetsblog,  3 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Flickr

“We Need to Stop Designing Our Lives Around Cars”

People will sometimes ask me, "Why do you hate cars so much?" The truth is, I don’t hate cars. They are useful to some people (delivery trucks, people with disabilities). The car itself is not the problem, it is what happens to society when ...

From SARAH GOODYEAR, Streetsblog,  2 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Flickr

Vancouver’s Olympic Transit Demonstration

Why should a growing city with high ambitions for sustainability host a big blockbuster like the Olympics, with all the risk and nuisance that it entails?  The Vancouver Olympics may be over, but Jarrett Walker at Human Transit writes ...

From SARAH GOODYEAR, Streetsblog,  1 Mar 2010

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