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STAR Team Items for July

Just a few news items from the STAR Team meeting yesterday: If you like to race bicycles, or watch people race bicycles, you’ll enjoy the St. John’s Powerful Medicine Criterium on Sunday 25 July at 101 E. Commercial St. For more information, see StJohnsCycling.com. The third iteration of the Bicycle Friendly Springfield petition is available for your signature now. This year’s [...]

Posted 22 July 2010 † Andy Cline § advocacy § news § policy ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Our Urban Challenge: Build It First

I swear I’m not making this up. The following is a snippet of conversation I heard at the Mudshouse. The interlocutors were high school kids: Kid 1: “There’s just too much sprawl here.” Kid 2: “Yeah, not enough density.” Kid 3: “It doesn’t matter. We’re not going to live here anyway.” How do we make [...]

Posted 16 May 2010 † Andy Cline § advocacy § ecology § policy ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Complete Streets Passes House

MoBikeFed reports that the HCR 67 Complete Streets Resolution passed in the Missouri House an hour before the end of the legislative session: The resolution is a comprehensive outline of the reasons for pursuing complete streets policies and urges all levels of government–from the city level up to the federal government–to use complete streets principles [...]

Posted 15 May 2010 † Andy Cline § news § policy ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Today’s Press Conference

STAR Team Press Conference from acline on Vimeo. Technorati Tags: bicycle advocacy, bicycle culture, bicycle politics, bicycle video, complete streets, cycling

Posted 06 May 2010 † Andy Cline § advocacy § news § policy ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Our Vision

Yesterday’s transportation committee meeting for the new city/OTO strategic plan focused on writing a vision statement. I’ve done this kind of work before, and it is usually painful (partly because I’ve usually done vision writing stuff with fellow academics). But yesterday’s exercise was remarkably invigorating and productive. We enjoy a great deal of consensus on [...]

Posted 20 April 2010 † Andy Cline § advocacy § news § policy ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

Our Urban Challenge: First in a Series

“What is striking about biking is not that it solves any particular problem but, instead, that is it part of the solution to several.” —  J. Harry Wray We have several problems in Springfield. You can begin to survey our problems — or challenges — by reading Springfield’s Competitive Assessment. Another snapshot of our community [...]

Posted 11 March 2010 † Andy Cline § advocacy § business § ecology § policy ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

CIP at the Council Meeting

The City Council last night heard public comment on Council Bill 2010-073 — calling for a special election in June to renew the 1/4-cent Capital Improvements Sales Tax. STAR Team Chairman Bruce Adib-Yazdi was one of three citizens who spoke in favor of the tax. No one spoke against it. Bruce’s remarks were confined to [...]

Posted 09 March 2010 † Andy Cline § advocacy § ecology § news § policy ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

What MO Citizens Want

The Missouri Transportation Alliance has been studying what sorts of MoDOT policies citizens will support. Click here for a report on the findings by Brent Hugh of the Missouri Bicycle and Pedestrian Federation: The good points from our point of view: MoTA is recognizing that people want to be able to have the choice to bicycle, [...]

Posted 09 February 2010 † Andy Cline § advocacy § ecology § policy ‡ Comments (7) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Slow(ing) Traffic

Slow ain’t in the American vocabulary, baby! And that plays a role in why about 35,ooo to 40,000 Americans die in traffic every year. This figure shocks no one because, frankly, we 1) don’t give a shit, and 2) think that it won’t happen to us because “I’m a better driver than others” (read this [...]

Posted 09 December 2009 † Andy Cline § ecology § policy ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

It’s A Beauty

Do people drive slower when the streetscape is beautiful? Are “complete streets” beautiful? Or can they be? Or should they be? I’m wondering because I’m chairing a sub-committee of the STAR Team that will, if successful, help encourage the City of Springfield to adopt a complete streets policy. More on this as our work progresses. [...]

Posted 24 November 2009 † Andy Cline § advocacy § ecology § news § policy ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

STAR Team Meets Next Week

The STAR Team of Ozark Greenways meets on 18 November at 5:30 p.m. at 319 N. Main Street in the offices of Butler Rosenbury & Partners. It’s “bring a guest night,” which is our not-so-subtle way of acknowledging that to remain an effective committee we need new meat from time to time. Hmmmmm… Who should [...]

Posted 10 November 2009 † Andy Cline § advocacy § announcement § ecology ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: ,

Deep Thought

What if we instituted the Idaho stop for all road users? Robert Hurst writes: The Reality of bicycling in cities like Denver is that riders of all stripes from all walks of life and various sides of the tracks tend to take blatant liberties with the law, rolling stop signs and stoplights in the central [...]

Posted 05 September 2009 † Andy Cline § ecology § policy ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Lanes Of Limited Use

I have no problem with bicycle lanes as long as they are appropriate. Part of what that means is they must not put bicyclists in danger and they should make life on the road easier for everyone. As if turns out in Springfield, there’s not much need that I can see for lanes over much [...]

Posted 04 August 2009 † Andy Cline § advocacy § ecology § policy ‡ Comments (13) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Ride on the Mild Side

Oh, yes — I love 3-lane roads. The City of Springfield has been working on Grant Ave. recently (and Kimbrough) to turn its 4-lane urban core sections into 3-lane sections. I rode it from Grand to Commercial — a smooth, easy trip of a little more than two miles. This creates an excellent north-south corridor [...]

Posted 30 July 2009 † Andy Cline § ecology ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,

Scan Team Surveys Bike/Ped Safety

Click here to read the recently-released International Scan Summary Report on Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety and Mobility. A team of transportation professionals visited five European countries to check out the 5-Es of successful bicycling and walking systems: engineering, education, enforcement, encouragement, and evaluation. At first I found it a little discouraging they chose to  exclude [...]

Posted 14 July 2009 † Andy Cline § ecology § news § policy ‡ Comments (11) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,