An incredible montage of what bicycles can be: safe, enjoyable, cheap, convenient, everyday transportation for young people and for old, for families and fashion slaves, in a city largely unpolluted by the exhaust and noise of cars. Courtesy of Amsterdamize. Also, not a bad argument for getting a DSLR!
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Twitterfeed
- Another potential co-op nixed by Boulder's archaic parking requirements: each 1400 sf 2 BR unit needs *4* spaces. Seriously? 1 week ago
- Mmmm @publicbikes are elegant and functional… all they lack is lights powered by hub dynamos! 1 week ago
- I think it's good when you schedule a 45min meeting w/ the mayor, & it goes 1.5hrs, ending only as you're kicked out of the (closing) cafe. 1 month ago
- My thoughts on the high cost of "free" parking in Boulder: http://t.co/aPoWeRqw @bouldergobldr @BoulderParking @CommunityCycles 1 month ago
- Wow. Affordable housing that uses federal funds is *prohibited* from charging for parking separately from rent (unbundling). 1 month ago
Linkstream
- Between the Lines
Yet another article about the Shoupistas, this time in Los Angeles magazine. Have we reached some kind of cognitive tipping point? Will urban parking policy start changing? Will our downtown business districts be transformed? We can hope... - Taking Parking Lots Seriously, as Public Spaces
An article from the New York Times about the architecture of parking lots, and how they might be much better used as public spaces with some design tweaks. Some cities like Houston and LA, dedicate a full third of their land area to parking lots, creating hard paved urban deserts and storm runoff disasters. They say that simply suggesting that we "buy fewer cars" is glib (I disagree) but clearly point out the folly of requiring vast quantities of parking by law, and then giving it away for free, thus hiding the true costs. - More Roads = More Traffic
A new study from the University of Toronto clearly shows that additional free road capacity -- either from adding actual road, or shifting people from driving to transit -- has no effect on congestion. Traffic expands to fill the available capacity, no matter how much you add, and the net public benefit from the investment in additional road capacity is negative. - The Joy of Slow Cities
It's entirely possible that in The Future, we'll come to realize that slower cities are better than fast. A city in which the fastest thing on the street is a bicycle is a place for living, for being, for enjoying in its own right. Walking, chatting, stopping on a whim at any shop or park or patio. We were lulled into a view of the future that was all high speed and high energy by the explosive industrialization of the early 20th century. But our visions of the future can and do change. We get to define what progress means. - Parking Price Elasticity in San Francisco
Prices affect parking less than San Francisco expected, in its ongoing SFPark experiment, fully implementing dynamic parking prices with target occupancy rates. Apparently people are willing to pay quite a bit more to be right next to their destination, instead of even one block away. Either that, or they don't realize how much parking prices vary block by block. Perhaps each of the parking kiosks should have a prominent street-facing display, readable by drivers, advertizing the price they charge per hour?
- Between the Lines
Boulder Bikes
Incoming Memes
Sadly I had to google DSLR even though SO is a photographer.
Very, very inspirational – in inspiring me to want to move to Amsterdam. I notice nobody wears a helmet, except some of the toted tots. It'd be so nice to to worry about getting creamed in traffic.
that is "not to worry" about getting creamed. I can't type.
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