The following is a legislative alert from Brent Hugh, executive director of the Missouri Bicycle & Pedestrian Federation: We aren’t exaggerating when we say this ask has never been more urgent. Click this link to contact your member of Congress in support of bicycling and walking: http://support.railstotrails.org/site/R?i=MU6Bn3Xx8UZZlnZ9Tmaq9w Thursday, February 2nd, the Transportation Infrastructure committee in the U.S. [...]
Yes, you can live the dream! All you have to do is click this link: LINK. Doing so will take you to the latest copy of our new edition of Drive Less, Live More, our local bicycling booklet (see the first edition here). Only we’ll be calling it something else. The new title may be [...]
Stuff you should know: Now that I have a GoPro Hero, I need to put it to use. Be watching for some short videos about specific traffic conditions. I may throw a long one in there every now and then, too At the last STAR Team meeting we discussed our 2011 progress toward making Springfield [...]
So I’ve been grousing for more than a year now that Springfield needs a women-oriented bicycle blog and/or cycle chic blog. In my media ethics class the other day I discovered that a student of mine has started such a blog and is trying to get a causal riding club going for women. Check out WhimCycle. Technorati [...]
The STAR Team meets this evening — the kick-off to a great 2012! I just learned the meeting place has changed to the new offices of the Ozarks Transportation Organization at 205 Park Central East #202. That’s on the Square downtown. Meeting time is 5:30. Technorati Tags: bicycle advocacy, cycling
City Councilman Tom Beiker held a public forum at The Hub yesterday — first in a series of planned public discussions. The main topic was bicycling and helping make Springfield a bicycle-friendly community. I was unable to attend the meeting. The News-Leader published an article today. It’s difficult to tell how much talk there was [...]
Last year I reported here, based on a conversation at a STAR Team meeting, that the city was uninterested in painting more bicycle lanes. With the creation of new lanes on Division and Benton and the discussion at night’s STAR Team meeting, it has became clear to me that painting more bicycle lanes is in [...]
Park Central Square is finished. Here are the results. You’ll see that it has become a more pedestrian-friendly place. Technorati Tags: Springfield Missouri, Urban and Regional Planning, urban design, urban development, Urban Planning
This is what happens when you hang out in coffee shops jawboning with cronies. One of the virtues of an urban area — especially a densely-populated downtown core — is that creative people bump into one another and start talking (or old farts start jawboning — take your pick). And that talking leads to ideas. And [...]
Just in time for the First Friday Art Walk, the Square is open again. Here’s an iPhone image from a few minutes ago. Technorati Tags: cycling, urban design, urban development, Urban Planning
My current project for the STAR Team is to update our Drive Less, Live More booklet. Changes in the works include: New title — It will fit with our new active transportation PR campaign. I can’t give you details yet. But stay tuned. New copy — I’m not doing a complete re-write. But I am [...]
Please be careful what you ask for, that is. There’s a movement afoot at the Bicycle Friendly Springfield group on Facebook to have Springfield bicyclists send postcards to the mayor requesting more bicycle friendliness in Springfield. The post cards are available at local bicycle shops. Fill it out. Send it in. Be heard. Good idea! [...]
Wow. Newsy day transportation-wise in Springfield. Check it out. Grand St. at MSU Eyed for Improvement: Never was their a better stretch of road needing some attention to make the lives of pedestrians and non-motorized traffic better. A preliminary design shows the project would cost around $2 million to pay for upgrades of traffic lights at both [...]
It be shining on me. I’m happy that the whole honor was focused on my efforts for bicycle and pedestrian advocacy instead of simply academic stuff. The academic stuff is important, but all too often it is, well, academic Technorati Tags: bicycle advocacy, cycling, green transportation, transportation, Transportation Planning
The following is an e-mail issued by Butler, Rosenbury & Partners today about the renovations to Park Central Square: Construction crews are finishing work on Park Central Square in downtown Springfield 20 days ahead of schedule. This is the culmination of a four-year effort to improve Springfield’s Public Square. History Originally positioned as the city center in 1838, [...]
