My lab group is doing a research study on cargo bike users in North America. If you are a cargo bike user and have a minute to take the survey we'd love to hear from you. Or please feel free to share or repost for other cargo bike users. Many thanks! pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
They also provide a walking school bus from the childcare center in this neighborhood!
In our local military neighborhood, a federal regulation I can get behind.
Impossible to overstate his influence, a legend who touched generations of planners and a quietly hilarious man. Digging out the custom “APARKolpyse Now” shirts our class made for him to wear in his honor.
IIHS found that pickups, SUVs and vans with a hood height greater than 40" are about 45% more likely to cause deaths in pedestrian crashes than cars and other vehicles with a hood height of 30" or less and a sloping profile. Such a rule on vehicle hood height would save bicyclist lives as well.
I get that, and am still curious about the less severe crashes because of their impact on travel choices. Offhand I know six kids who’ve been in low severity (road rash/broken arms) e-bike crashes that I suspect don’t appear in any data. Definitely influenced my decisions around my kids and bikes.
I’m curious about to know whether this study (or another resource??) takes a stab at estimating under-reporting of crashes.
Someone is out there doing what’s important to you. Got funds but limited time? Give funds. Got time but limited funds? Give time. And you’re not neglecting everything else by focusing on one or two issues; you’re in community handling this so others can manage that.
A thing about biking with kids is that it’s so much less messy than car travel. I have never once cleaned my kids bikes, yet spent the last hour removing from my car a cat toy, empty popsicle holder, toothbrush, decapitated Barbie, golf ball, and metric ton of sand and goldfish cracker crumbs.
Density is something we planners love to talk about, but it’s also such a bad way to describe the lived experience of a neighborhood. Even I couldn’t have told you that the density on my street is 16 du/acre.
Glad to see my hometown has joined the Shoupista ranks!
If 50% of the vehicle lane was blocked by dirt and overgrown landscaping it would be dealt with immediately. Just submitted a Get It Done request, so we’ll see how long it takes to make this sidewalk accessible again.
I immediately thought of this photo, ha. When we lived downtown with a toddler, the balcony overlooking the trolley line provided hours of entertainment. It wasn’t a substitute for outdoor space to run around, but it certainly improved our quality of life.
Some active transportation and new housing under construction to brighten your day.
Why force pedestrians to push a button to cross, but not make it accessible?
This just in:
The City of Kenmore (population 24,000, north end of Lake Washington) just started 24/7 camera enforcement of speed limits in school zones.
No fines have been issued yet, just warnings.
The rate of people speeding has dropped from 50% to 5%.
Ready for that AB 43 implementation any time now…
Out here in the desert people pay a premium to retire in communities with narrow, low-speed, low-traffic streets, so why is it so hard to build streets like this anywhere else?
There are people who go out of their way for views of the ocean, and people who go out of their way for views of the new roundabout…