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To Cross, or Not to Cross…
PSU Transportation Seminar: Speaker: Ron Van Houten, Western Michigan University Topics: Pedestrian Safety and Culture Change When: Friday, May 16, 2014, 12-1 p.m. Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204 Summary: This session will describe the process and results of a NHTSA study that showed a change in driver culture of yielding to pedestrians in crosswalks on…
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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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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…