Category: Modes

  • Virtual Busways on Toll Lanes?

    Dave Brook forwarded this interesting piece from the San Fancisco Chronicle on merging tolls with bus rapid transit. While the idea is up for consideration in the Bay Area, it apparently is going to be tried in Houston. The basic idea is to put toll lanes alongside regular lanes, and control usage of the toll…

  • PortlandCycling.net Added to Bike Channel

    Carlo has just posted some news items to his site, so it’s a good time to announce that the RSS feed from his PortlandCycling.net site has been added to Portland Transport’s Portland Bike Channel site and mega-RSS feed

  • 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.