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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.