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 [...]
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 [...]
Take a look at this animation that runs on the opening page of the Complete Streets web site: It just leaps off the screen and slaps you across the face: That bicycle lane — in the door zone — is dangerous! As Carbon Trace readers should be aware by now, I have no problem with [...]
