Category: Modes

  • Bridge Work Rained Out… Again

    The weekend closure of the Burnside Bridge to change lane marking for the upcoming maintence work is rained out for the second weekend in a row. The plan is now for next weekend…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Updated: A Pain the Bridge

    Update: This weekend’s closure has been postponded due to the weather, and tentatively rescheduled to next weekend For those of us who just finally got that sense of relief that two years of maintenance on the Broadway Bridge are over (or who suffered through the projects on the Hawthorne or Ross Island bridges before), here…

  • Bike Show Now on iTunes

    Our KBOO Bike Show podcast is now available on iTunes. To find it, type “KBOO Bike” into the search box in iTunes. Eventually we should show up in the podcast directory listing under Transportation, sub-category Bicycles. However, updating of these categories is notoriously slow, so we don’t know when we’ll show up.