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Complete Streets update
First, some bad news from the federal level where the Complete Streets provision has been removed from the long-debated, much amended Transportation bill. Other better news from the top: the National Complete Streets Coalition is incorporating as an official program of Smart Growth America which makes sense – streets, no matter how complete, are still […]
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Bicycling and the NRA
Bike Advocacy from the NRA Playbook got my attention since I am pro-bike and but not pro-gun. The idea is not to whip your handgun out of your saddlebag or jersey pocket to shoot the motorist who ran you off the road. No, apparently the NRA’s success at growing the organization and its almost legendary […]
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City Council stuff this week
It’s the 4th Monday which often means the Council gets a meetingless evening. Not this week, however. There is a special Council meeting (“special” incidentally, does not mean that there is something special or ‘specially important or ‘specially controversial on the agenda but only that the meeting is not a “regular” meeting happening on the […]
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Walkability
Left, right, left, right… Joel Walinski’s weekly Administrator’s Memo has an interesting link this week to Walk Score. At Walk Score, you can enter your address (or any other address) and get a number between 0 and 100: 90–100 = Walkers’ Paradise: Most errands can be accomplished on foot and many people get by without […]