City Hall to lose its transportation boss, who oversaw major street redesigns
Salt Lake City’s director of transportation Jon Larsen is leaving his post, opting to join the Utah Transit Authority.| Building Salt Lake
San Francisco has a painful scooter problem. The electric devices are driving a sharp increase in injury crashes. They’ve gone from zero a decade ago to 227 in 2024. Rental e-scooters arrived on SF streets in 2017. What the SF Municipal Transportation Agency calls “standup powered devices” now account for 6 percent of all […] The post SF’s Electric Scooter Danger Surges With Privately-Owned Devices appeared first on The Frisc.| The Frisc
This morning Culver City officially opened its Robertson Boulevard Complete Street project. Culver City Mayor Dan O’Brien cut the ceremonial ribbon before a crowd of about 60. Culver City’s Chief Transportation Officer, Diana Chang, spoke about how Robertson is now “safer for everyone” and how the project demonstrates the city’s commitment to multimodal mobility, safety,… The post Culver City Cuts Ribbon to Open Robertson Blvd Bus/Bike Facility appeared first on Streetsblog Los An...| Streetsblog Los Angeles
Salt Lake City’s director of transportation Jon Larsen is leaving his post, opting to join the Utah Transit Authority.| Building Salt Lake
CalBike and local leaders organized an August bike ride in Bakersfield to show that heat is not a deterrent — but bad infrastructure is.| CalBike
Zohran Mamdani vowed to complete street redesigns that Eric Adams killed due to political pressure and, in at least one case, alleged bribes.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Imagine destroying everything you've spent decades building to stop the city from building a bike lane. Welcome to Gina and Tony Argentos' world.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The proposed Gray Street bike lane was quite possibly the perfect bike lane. Yet the original design died an unexpected and unfortunate bureaucratic death. Please don't let it be in vain.| Streetsblog Denver
Cycling has had many ups and downs since I (CABO supporter Pete Penseyres) started riding as an adult in 1971. Twice in the ’70s, Middle east countries banded together as OPEC and cut the world’s supply to boost prices when we were heavily dependent on imports. We had rationing, odd-even license plate days when we […]| CABO
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