Want more bike parking in Williamsburg and Greenpoint? Join us for Bike Rack Hunt: a fun afternoon of planning for Brooklyn Community District 1’s bulk order of bike racks. Come help launch the FixCity Bike Racks project we’re building to facilitate this process! Sunday, September 202 – 5 p.m. Wiillamsburg/GreenpointExact location and time TBA FixCity […]

The ease of getting around Portland without a car enriches the city. As Elana Schor wrote here a few weeks ago, transportation reform is health reform. The connection between active transportation and public health took center stage at PA Walks and Bikes this week, where Michele Barrett shared some startling statistics on the huge toll […]

Hang Chau is a future medical student who researched block parties and public health as an undergrad in Philadelphia, and is now organizing more in San Diego. In a new StreetsWiki entry on block parties, she examines the way these public community events encourage people to invest in their neighborhoods by highlighting the positive (outdoor […]

Andrew Nash Andrew Nash, former Executive Director of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, has just posted a paper about Web 2.0 for Transport Planning on StreetsWiki. He’s asking the Livable Streets Community, as experts on the ground, to contribute to it before he presents the final draft at the Transportation Research Board’s 2010 annual […]

Cantor Benjamin Kintisch When starting a new Livable Streets campaign people will often ask us, "How do I connect with others in my neighborhood and build a working group?" Cantor Benjamin Kintisch is facing this familiar concern in Harlem and Hamilton Heights, and this time we’re putting the question to you. If you’ve had success […]

Banned in NJ: Many Jersey towns don’t allow kids to bike to school. Photo: Voorhees Transportation Center Image Library, Leigh Ann Von Hagen. This May, a bill surfaced in the U.S. Senate that would triple federal funding for Safe Routes to School programs. Livable Streets Community activists have been on the case this week, mobilizing […]

The interplay of cycling, fashion, and gender has been a hot topic in the livable streets blogosphere this month, and in the Livable Streets Community too. We recently saw the launch of a bike culture-themed group blog called Amsterdamize, and on StreetsWiki we have a new article on Cycle Chic. Santa Barbara Cycle Chic. Photo: […]

RenewLV wants to see the Raritan Valley Line expanded to PA. This week we turn our attention to news of a multi-state effort to expand NJ Transit’s Raritan Valley Line. Livable Streets member group RenewLV — a campaign for smart growth in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley — attended an exciting meeting of the broader Raritan Valley […]

Downtown San Francisco as seen from Potrero Hill. Photo: Joe Bencharsky This week brought urban history lessons to StreetsWiki from Livable Streets members coast to coast. Joe Bencharsky penned a neighborhood profile of Potrero Hill, San Francisco, where his family has lived for three generations. Says Joe: Partly because of street and freeway configuration, partly […]

DOT’s release of mapped bike rack locations last week was met with excitement, but at least one Streetsblog reader also wondered how useful such info would be on-the-fly. While it may not be something you’ll whip out en route, this information can be incredibly helpful for communities in planning and campaigning for more bike parking. […]

Whether it’s the end of bike month or the open data enthusiasm spurred by Obama’s new "Democratizing Data" initiative, the Livable Streets Community is full of calls to action this week. Milwaukee’s new interactive mapping project Dan Knauss of the Cream Citizen group — "Milwaukee’s open source think tank for progressive urbanist policy, sustainable development, […]