Month: January 2006

  • Audio: Bicycle Highways in the Sky

    From last week’s Smart City radio program: Imagine this: Bicycles traveling at speeds up to 50 miles per hour in enclosed tubes hanging above the streets. That’s the vision of Chris Hardwicke, a Toronto architect who is promoting his idea as Velo-City. It’s worth a listen (it’s the first segment in the show’s audio file…

  • Forum Links Health and Urban Design

    The Oregon Environmental Council is hosting a forum: Healthier by Design: Urban Lifestyles and the Built Environment on January 26th. This is part of their Healthy Environment series.

  • Updated: Crosswalk Enforcement Action Tomorrow

    Update 11 January 2006: Over at Commissioner Sam they’re reporting that 25 citations were issued, 10 of them to bikes and peds. The Commissioner reportedly survived the exercise.

  • Tolling Technology Advances

    I believe further evidence that tolling is likely to be in our future can be found in an article in yesterday’s New York Times about advances in tolling technology and use.

  • Peak Oil Speaker Coming to Portland

    By way of News for Neighbors, we learned that Richard Heinberg will be speaking in Portland on January 20th. Richard is author of Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World. Details can be found at Living Earth.