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Should You Be Allowed to Auction the Parking Space You’re Leaving?
Via Planetizen: MonkeyParking is a new app that lets you take bids on the on-street parking space you’re about to pull out of. The San Francisco City Attorney is investigating whether it’s legal to make a profit off a public space. I love innovation, but when I read something like this it makes me a…
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KBOO Bike Show: Aftermass
Listen to the show (mp3, 16.8MB) Tori, Alon and new host Jocelyn Gaudi speak with Joe Biel and Sara Stout, discussing bicycle advocacy and bike fun in the context of the Critical Mass movement. Joe’s documentary “Aftermass” about Critical Mass in Portland (and its demise) will screen in Portland on May 23rd.
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Shaping Up the Southwest Corridor DEIS
The project staff have released their recommendations for what should and shouldn’t be studied in the DEIS (PDF, 17M).
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Did the great crime decline cause modern urbanism?
One of my big and untested (but unrebutted) hunches about the urbanism revolution, the drop in vehicle-miles traveled per person and so forth, is that it all flows from the rapid and mostly unexplained decline in crime rates that began in 1994. As cities became safer, the first to notice were the young, poor, mobile…
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A Portland Plan Take on the Twenties Bikeway
There’s a great deal of controversy around the question of whether or not parking removal on NE/SE 28th Ave should be part of the solution for the 20s bikeway. At the moment PBOT is leaning toward not removing parking, which means no dedicated bikeway in this section of the project (roughly between Oregon and Stark…