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Author: Melissa Chow - National Vice-Chair, Communications
371 City Leaders Ask Boxer For More Local Control Over Bike/Ped Money
by Tanya Snyder Last week, 371 mayors and other city leaders wrote a letter [PDF] to Sen. Barbara Boxer, chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, in support of local control over transportation dollars for bike and pedestrian projects. About two-thirds of the signatories are mayors, from cities as big as Philadelphia and Los [...]
San Diego Added 39 Miles of Buffered Bike Lanes in the Last Year
by Angie Schmitt San Diego has a deserved reputation for being not the friendliest place to ride a bike in the state of California. But lately the city has made some admirable strides. Sam Ollinger at BikeSD reports on San Diego’s relatively big year in bike infrastructure: Donald Pornan, who works at the city’s Transportation [...]
An Atlanta Neighborhood’s Vanished Street Grid
by Angie Schmitt Ever heard of Atlanta’s Vine City? No? That could be because it was largely obliterated by urban renewal two generations ago. These side-by-side images shared today by Darin at ATL Urbanist show the street grid in Vine City, near downtown Atlanta, in 1911 and today. And Darin says the city is poised [...]
DC Job Alert: Senior Associate Infrastructure- National League of Cities
apply at http://www.nlc.org/about-nlc/career-center/careers-at-nlc/senior-associate-infrastructure Senior Associate Infrastructure The National League of Cities is seeking an experienced professional to be responsible for conceptualizing, researching, and delivering, solution-based resources to NLC's target audience of municipal leaders on the topics of infrastructure and the built environment with a focus on promising and best practices at the city level. Reports [...]