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Satirical “Bicycle Lobby” Twitter Account Fakes Out Media Giants

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 22, 2014 | 4 Comments

The @BicycleLobby Twitter account is a parody inspired by last year’s unhinged rant about bike-share from Wall Street Journal columnist Dorothy Rabinowitz. Its running joke for the past 13 months has been that “the all-powerful bike lobby” envisioned by Rabinowitz is real — and yes, it controls the universe. Sample tweet from July 20: “Today is […]

Portland Newscast Offers Biking Conditions With the Weather Report

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 25, 2014 | 12 Comments

Showers arrive early Wednesday afternoon. Best to get that bike ride in early. #fox12 pic.twitter.com/4b1pWX57mi — FOX 12 Oregon KPTV (@fox12oregon) June 25, 2014 Here’s a local newscast that’s getting something right. FOX 12 in Portland, Oregon, has taken to reporting the conditions for cycling along with the weather report. “They’ve been doing it for a […]

Author Jeff Speck on Walkability and the One Mistake That Can Wreck a City

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 19, 2012 | 10 Comments

What makes a city great? According to Jeff Speck, the secret sauce is, quite simply, walking. If your city is a good place to walk — that is, walking is safe, comfortable, interesting, and useful — everything else will fall into place. In Walkable City, his talked-about manifesto about healthy urban places, Speck lays out a […]

Obama Names Transpo Transition Team

By Sarah Goodyear | Nov 14, 2008 | 12 Comments

The Obama-Biden transition team today unveiled its "Agency Review Teams" — the people charged with "a thorough review of key departments, agencies and commissions of the United States government, as well as the White House, to provide the President-elect, Vice President-elect, and key advisors with information needed to make strategic policy, budgetary, and personnel decisions […]

Hillary Clinton Introduces Senate Version of Transit Relief Bill

By Ben Fried | Aug 4, 2008 | 16 Comments

Transit operators struggling to keep pace with demand as rising fuel costs strain their budgets received some welcome news on Friday. New York’s junior senator has introduced a version of the Saving Energy Through Public Transportation Act. The bill, which would provide $1.7 billion for local transit agencies over the next two years (including $237 […]

Would Dems’ Pledge for “Change” Bring Transportation Reform?

By Damien Newton | Jan 30, 2008 | 20 Comments

Hillary Clinton ad now airing in Southern California This is part two of a two-part series on where candidates for president stand on transportation issues, authored by Streetsblog Los Angeles correspondent Damien Newton. Damien currently runs the blog Street Heat, which is soon to become Streetsblog L.A., our first foray into foreign territory. Damien was […]

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